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
68e07e7afeb3f99a3bf7f430770f5bd7
DLL
ab189439d2c625793b4ab4eb15641687
DLL
79c7511f2958974aa9ebea764b735e13
DLL
2fdfa82223228c1e9430d0bad68a8328
DLL
cbf33d9962dae395d4830188ee5b9d6c
DLL
eb423d4927fe63e97e8b067dd1024461
DLL
fc79f85cdd7cea1cf7ff09ff39d94967
DLL
7b4acbf9ee05b7f6c8626b76bac4b7ee
DLL
79bfc22f5d3a9ec68397880cf1139268
DLL
dd0ffae2ee1a682253c0e44b68909431