What is Dead Island?

Dead Island is software application developed by Techland. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 62.63% of installations running this operating system. Dead Island's installer is typically 45.00 MB in size and installs around 60 files.

Dead Island is most popular in the United States with 55.08% of installations residing in this country.

Dead Island adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Dead Island is known to create 3 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Dead Island?

"Dead Island, developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver, is an open world action role-playing video game that challenges players to survive a zombie-infested island with a focus on melee combat. The game features apparent open world roaming, divided by relatively large areas, and is played from a first-person perspective. As an action role-playing game, Dead Island utilizes experience-based gameplay and character customization. Players earn XP by completing tasks and defeating enemies, allowing them to level up and invest skill points into a skill tree to improve their health and stamina."

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\giochi\Steam\Steam.exe'.
DeadIslandGame.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Danila\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dead Island\DeadIslandGame.exe'.
SteamTmp.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 '{F379847F-E7EF-4084-9B2F-B87B28202FA4}' (runs on registration).
DeadIslandGame.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{DC374E95-140F-4516-BDEE-E74AEF3CF25F}' (runs on registration).
SteamTmp.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{0FA4F2B3-5879-4EB7-87D7-15A36952D352}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam Startup.

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.
SteamTmp.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.deadislandgame.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dead Island

Uninstaller:

"C:\spiele\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/91310

Size:

45.00 MB

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