global outage affected 8.5 million computers

After what the world has experienced, the first figures of the “damage” caused by 41 KB of code are beginning to appear. According to Microsoft, the global flaw affected 8.5 million computers.

Flaw impacted just 1% of Windows machines
Last Friday, Microsoft's Windows 10 crashed due to a computer failure. According to the company's announcement today, despite the panic in some companies and services, this failure only impacted 1% of machines using Windows in the world.
As far as is known, the problem was due to an update to the "Falcon" antivirus from the North American company Crowdstrike. Also on Friday, Crowdstrike's CEO, George Kurtz, publicly apologized "to all organizations, groups and individuals that were affected".
Microsoft's corporate group vice president, David Weston, said the incident was "outside of Microsoft's control" and that hundreds of engineers and experts had been deployed to help affected organizations.

CrowdStrike's software is used by numerous Fortune 500 companies, CNN reported. The software aims to protect systems. According to CrowdStrike, Falcon is the only antivirus using Artificial Intelligence.
To ensure the security of systems using Windows 10 and Falcon's security solution, the following steps must be taken:

1 - Start Windows in SafeMode or in the Recovery Environment.
2 - Access the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory.
3 - Delete the file “C-00000291*.sys”
4 - Restart ao Windows.