Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
by sudosysgen on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:13PM
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People don't complain about kernel code from Microsoft because Microsoft wrote the kernel. You don't have a choice but to trust Microsoft with that.
People have been complaining about rootkit powered antimalware for a long time. It didn't start with CrowdStrike: there was a whole debacle about it in the Windows XP days when Microsoft stopped antiviruses from patching the kernel.
People don't go around complaining that Microsoft Defender is "rootkit powered endpoint surveillance". It's intent is to protect the system.
There is a lot more suspicion around kernel level anti-cheat software developed by the likes of Epic games due to their ownership than they Crowdstrike or Microsoft.