What is Adobe Shockwave Player?

Adobe Shockwave Player is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Microsoft Windows XP with nearly 69.22% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Shockwave Player's installer is typically 33.00 MB in size and installs around 472 files. The most common release is 12.0.6.147 with 26.45% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Shockwave Player is most popular in the United States with 41.09% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Shockwave Player adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Adobe Shockwave Player is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Adobe Shockwave Player?

Adobe Shockwave, previously known as Macromedia Shockwave, is a versatile multimedia platform designed to enhance web pages with animation and interactivity. It enables the publishing of Adobe Director applications on the Internet, accessible through web browsers on computers equipped with the Shockwave plug-in. Shockwave movies are created within the Adobe Director environment, providing authors with a range of powerful tools and features. Despite the ability to include Flash movies within Shockwave files, many authors prefer the Shockwave Director combination due to its superior capabilities. Notable advantages over Flash include a faster rendering engine, support for hardware-accelerated 3D, and compatibility with various network protocols such as Internet Relay Chat.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

SWDNLD.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\Adobe\Director\SwDnld.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

SwInit.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{CDEE7797-1494-466E-947F-101A665BD225}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries (User):

SwHelper_1211151.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 12\SwHelper_1211151.exe" -Update.
SwHelper_1212152.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 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; ..
SwHelper_1213153.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 6.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NE.
SwHelper_1209149.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 12\SwHelper_1209149.exe" -Update.
SwHelper_1206147.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/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10" -"httC://hig.
SwHelper_1202122.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 12\SwHelper_1202122.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 -1103472 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR .
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_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.
SwHelper_1100458.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 -1100458 -Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR.
SwHelper_1203133.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 12\SwHelper_1203133.exe" -Update.
SwHelper_1161629.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Adobe\Shockwave 11\SwHelper_1161629.exe" -Update.
SwHelper_1215155.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 -1103472 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; eSobiSub.
SwHelper_1219160.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 -1103471 -"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36" -"httC://www.explorelearning..
SwHelper_1216156.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 6.0; Trident/4.0; FunWebProducts; GTB6.4; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT.
SwHelper_1217157.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/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; ..
SwHelper_1163633.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\Windows\system32\Adobe\Shockwave 11\SwHelper_1163633.exe" -Update.