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  The exact numbers for when it messes something up, but keeps running, are unknown and highly ubpredictable. According to above post, about 10% of firefox crashes (more numbers found in the post) are caused by this stuff. It's not unreasonable to say those crashes could've had the bitflip happen on content instead, changing maybe a character on the page or something. Note that it's not 10% of *users*, as that's reslly hard to figure out. Someone with bad RAM will likely crash mo...

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  This doesn't really say much; this could be legitimate software thinking it crashed, or it could be malware trying to hide itself. Try seeing if `sudo find / -type f -name windows` tells you anything about where it's installed. This command searches through `/` (all files) to find a file (`-type f`) that is named `windows` (the same as the process name).