Some victims reported that the problem affected dozens of machines in their organization, while others wrote that they had problems with more than 10,000 systems.įirst, users fixed the problem on their own (for example, the rollback to the previous version of Symantec Endpoint Protection helped), and then the developers finally reacted to what was happening. “Not feeling well today, but still having a better day than Symantec, who are apparently busy BSOD’ing entire enterprises through a bad signature update in their Endpoint Protection product”, - writes Twitter user addition, some users complained about an arbitrary reboot of the servers, but did not indicate which OS they were running. The affected devices malfunctioned, and the update provoked a blue screen of death (BSOD), which referred to problems with IDSvix86.sys and IDSvia64.sys. This update triggered the legendary Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

Windows 7.8 and 10 users encountered an unpleasant problem after updating Symantec Endpoint Protection to version 4 r61.

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