The Howler

The Howler

by Antanas Marcelionis

What is The Howler?

The Howler is software application developed by Antanas Marcelionis. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 76.36% of installations running this operating system. The Howler's installer is typically 78.00 MB in size and installs around 44 files.

The Howler is most popular in the United States with 57.14% of installations residing in this country.

The Howler 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, The Howler is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
  • Howler.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Howler\Howler.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{B6D81AEC-C691-4109-ACBA-39A635BBAF0E}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam_Reg_HKCURun_S-1-5-21-3837917440-1771750534-681917250-1001.
Registry entries:
  • Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.

Software Details

URL:
https://www.howler.com
Support:
https://support.steampowered.com
Installation path:
C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Howler
Uninstaller:
"C:\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/306040
Size:
78.00 MB
Language:
English

The Howler Executable Details

Primary executable:
Howler.exe
Name:
The Howler
Path:
C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Howler\Howler.exe
MD5:
4939ebe21933b79c0ba2b0a66b5c9fea
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by The Howler
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
8991a02e4592ba789f76dfa876d6a274
DLL
6c78e34bc24241f81a7d9b7c3a4d0ca0
EXE
4191259814b1ac2f35c22128447ccc79
DLL
d0d5e2633d76ad7c489003849bd91610
DLL
5620a826731b7c3a3c033b8665960b8e
DLL
14d7228a240d4e8c33ba2d9af741454a
DLL
d80d927fe5f45526d7b4c8ecc5321067
DLL
a7c0bcd3f7f4ef2b9c87e7645d772cdd
DLL
a9d8553b9ba8605136c75def328505ff
EXE
dcae37bfbbaf6bb7fc391980f364cce7