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CrowdStrike Outage May Impact Dental Offices

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Mr. Sean Kubin of Standard Computers contacted ASDA this morning to state that dental offices may have been impacted by the CrowdStrike Outage, which has had an extensive affect on computer systems around the globe.

To that end, Standard Computer provided the following fix, and further offers their services for dental offices that have experienced a failure:

“Crowdstrike is a type of Anti-virus and a major bug has just hit that caused it reboot servers endlessly.

This may be the single largest IT failure in modern times. 

If your dental office is impacted, these steps are a work around:

Workaround Steps:

  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.

We are inviting ASDA members to contact us for free assistance in recovering from this outage. 501-224-0050 x2″

ASDA appreciates Standard Computer for stepping up to assist Arkansas dentists during this crisis.

Billy Tarpley

Billy Tarpley

About Billy Tarpley

Serve as chief lobbyist for the dental association, which was established in 1887. Oversee all legal and regulatory matters, as well as publications, continuing dental education, conference planning and governance activities. Between 2005 and 2009, spent 4 years as Director of Development at Henderson State University (alma mater), but returned to the association in 2009.

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