From PC World: Another week, another issue with Windows 11 24H2 cropping up. It’s been over a month since the major Windows 11 update began rolling out to users and we’ve seen network connectivity issues, blue screen crashes, and rescue patches that fail to install. It’s gotten to the point where Microsoft has had to block the update for affected devices.
But even as Microsoft works on fixing the numerous issues already in play, more problems are surfacing — like a recent issue involving Microsoft Office apps crashing when a particular antivirus software is installed on your system, according to this support page.
The annoying error affects Office applications such as Word or Excel, which crash and become completely unusable after updating to Windows 11 24H2. And this apparently only happens on systems that are running antivirus software by CrowdStrike. (Yes, the very same CrowdStrike that caused the global IT meltdown back in July.)
That would be CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor antivirus software, which has several advanced cybersecurity mechanisms that can cause problems on Windows 11 24H2 if the “Enhanced Exploitation Visibility Prevention Policy” setting is enabled in the host’s Prevention Policy.
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