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
04f39a626a0c567e3bd4c20b82cf2b67
DLL
a20f974c44b2fbf83b192d3863bb1cf5
DLL
4ba842ad880526ce756226ae5a696e53
DLL
22ae80823fb465f7fd55c5a0781032e8
DLL
2194e8956e6c27bbc65b708bda1619f3
DLL
be9312f72ab68fc7cd38f5bc7fc6fe35
DLL
e86ea681c97f48a082610c9b6e38834e
DLL
72f95604065ab9f1bfb3ff0475a417dd
EXE
17715f1ff1d21bb383383db1c62506fc