Your Win XP machine isn't owned by a major organisation who deployed Crowdstrike and bitLocker to all their employees. So home computers were never going to be affected. But the rest of your life might be...
For the rest of the people who do work for major banks, companies or gov organisations, it is going to be a rough weekend.
CrowdStrike is pretty much the only player in the Large enterprise endpoint protection game.
BitLocker is great technology when it works.. Terrible impediment to getting a fix done remotely. (45 character password to un-lock!)
