What is Alien Swarm?

Alien Swarm is software application developed by Valve Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 64.73% of installations running this operating system. Alien Swarm's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 41 files.

Alien Swarm is most popular in the United States with 52.51% of installations residing in this country.

Alien Swarm 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, Alien Swarm is known to create 3 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Alien Swarm?

Alien Swarm is a free top-down shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is a remake of the Alien Swarm mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and was created by the original team, who were subsequently brought on board by Valve during the development process. The game also includes a software development kit with buildable source code for further customization and development.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
swarm.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Jeux\Steam\steamapps\common\alien swarm\swarm.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 '{D65D5174-F6F6-4F27-A231-681F452734B2}' (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 2.

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://store.steampowered.com/app/630

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\games\steam\steamapps\common\alien swarm

Uninstaller:

"C:\Games\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/630

Size:

1.00 MB

Language: