The Witch's Yarn

The Witch's Yarn

by Mousechief

What is The Witch's Yarn?

The Witch's Yarn is software application developed by Mousechief. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 50.00% of installations running this operating system.

The Witch's Yarn is most popular in the United States with 83% of installations residing in this country.

The Witch's Yarn adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, The Witch's Yarn is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{A14B6D8D-51FE-4C39-94B7-51FC1427939F}' (runs on registration).
  • GameOverlayUI.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Steam Overlaylol'.

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam_Reg_HKCURun_S-1-5-21-1646055978-2255025000-3107839011-1001.
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.mousechief.com
Support:
https://support.steampowered.com
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witch's Yarn
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/287740
Size:
0.00 B
Language:
English

The Witch's Yarn Executable Details

Primary executable:
video.dll
Name:
The Witch's Yarn
Path:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witch's Yarn\video.dll
MD5:
98a9f5dc78eca03e7ce0ae6dd116d7e6
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by The Witch's Yarn
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
c6b57bc6559f86b3e34d8ab0fbb628d5
EXE
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EXE
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DLL
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DLL
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DLL
4a8bc195abdc93f0db5dab7f5093c52f
DLL
6de5c66e434a9c1729575763d891c6c2
DLL
ca2f560921b7b8be1cf555a5a18d54c3
DLL
1e01f95b58752fd029cf12b94999af56
DLL
c362a0bcb09681de1fe91140f25b9f22