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
c18caa9ba4f06a5d226a892df6dc1d72
DLL
52a41f0e49b2208df75609699fc7254c
DLL
a7532e66ea2f168a0970e829d8986423
DLL
c6b57bc6559f86b3e34d8ab0fbb628d5
EXE
f1ce79f70eced26de5ca2f82f17d59b3
EXE
ee57dfa8cde83118e8745be09d5e8259
DLL
8010fece98b19f562a71eeccc2149dbb
DLL
e69d753c2700b16084f26fdb59e8db3b
DLL
361cb148131be0bb495dfc56f12003b6
DLL
3060d459df3169496e8c7a3e6d2eae8e