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
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DLL
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DLL
0b1a379a5d0b6c15c2881646cfeee866
DLL
07e59f3dffeb43d2b300706d255db815
DLL
65bf7b6e9a356979323e53b8fc6a75b7
DLL
8e4b48e6f10b186776b33f12e993732e
EXE
80b46ac70baf44b6b18eaa7d24b22359
DLL
9b088743b524b8d60321ec8eda35cdbf
DLL
1a5266ad506036c840ee7a47b6d9b604
DLL
0d96aef7c9c23d9839211a2275473b6e