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
EXE
9e0a911bd5e1ceb496f67925c62ca2e3
DLL
cace6bbb8ccf3bf1767fa2c0329f357e
DLL
56d3639709c3c319eb0b6eff36e1648a
EXE
133030514cd8ac8099530a90c219fc7e
DLL
a23c00b548002dae1427665604cb41ff
DLL
4ae69483d38b2fc86f09a33969fffa74
DLL
4fdeeb3a769502fadc02a1f8fd61639b
DLL
3ee934e8f29dff703cadda9fd451dd6e
EXE
32c3a90e860c27dd5525f5455d471b23
DLL
833d30fa5bd04e2011cb6b9d7081dded