Process Roulette Apps: PC Crashes and Malware Risks

Process Roulette: The Game That Crashes Your PC for Fun (and Sometimes Sells Malware)

Process roulette apps crash PCs for fun and sometimes sell malware. IceSolst, Codebox, and Jamis offer risky games with safety warnings.

Process roulette: The game that’s crashing PCs for fun—and maybe selling malware on the side.

IceSolst’s Cursor AI app on X randomly kills processes via PID, with its store page linking to a $hitcoin malware marketplace. Codebox’s 5-year-old GitHub app warns users that its ‘i am a coward’ command ‘could mess up your machine pretty badly.’

Jamis’ decade-old multiplayer version runs in a VM and is described as ‘slightly more well-defined game.’

‘A silly little game that could mess up your machine pretty badly (please use a VM!)’ — the developer of Codebox’s app said. Safety warnings note that ‘restarting after crash usually fixes it’ unless malware is installed.