What is Adobe Shockwave Player 11?

Adobe Shockwave Player 11 is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows Vista with nearly 48.09% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Shockwave Player 11's installer is typically 17.00 MB in size and installs around 75 files. The most common release is 11 with 97.59% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Shockwave Player 11 is most popular in the United States with 45.49% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Shockwave Player 11 adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Adobe Shockwave Player 11?

Adobe Shockwave, previously known as Macromedia Shockwave, is a robust multimedia platform used to enhance web pages with animation and interactive content. This software enables Adobe Director applications to be distributed and accessed on the web through the Shockwave plug-in on any computer. Content is created using the Adobe Director environment, and while it supports Flash movie integration, many developers favor the Shockwave Director combination due to its advanced features and powerful tools. Notable features include a rapid rendering engine with hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities, as well as support for diverse network protocols such as Internet Relay Chat.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

SwHelper_1158612.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{8D0DE216-350B-4ACC-B1E0-93E7B10C87B5}' (runs on registration).
SwInit.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{CDEE7797-1494-466E-947F-101A665BD225}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries (User):

SwHelper_1152602.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as C:\WINDOWS\system32\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE -Update -1103472 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; MS Internet Explorer; .N.
SwHelper_1200112.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE" -Update -1103470 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.
SwHelper_1165635.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\windows\SysWOW64\Adobe\Shockwave 11\SwHelper_1165635.exe" -Update.
SwHelper_1158612.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE -Update -1100465 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; OfficeLiveConn.
SwHelper_1207148.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE -Update -1103471 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; FBSMTWB; GTB6.4; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5..
SwHelper_1159615.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Adobe\Shockwave 11\SwHelper_1159615.exe" -Update.