Solution to Windows 10 and Cloudstrike BSOD issue which impacted thousands of computers on the Internet

Major issue related to Windows 10 and Cloudstrike creating headlines today. Solution to the issue is given below:

CrowdStrike Engineering has identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes.

Workaround Steps for Local Windows 10 machines:

1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
2. Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
3. Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
4. Boot the host normally.

Workaround Steps for AWS EC2 instance:

• Detach the EBS volume from the impacted EC2
• Attach the EBS volume to a new EC2
• Fix the Crowdstrike driver folder
• Detach the EBS volume from the new EC2 instance
• Attach the EBS volume to the impacted EC2 instance