What is Ricochet?

Ricochet is software application developed by Valve Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 56.83% of installations running this operating system. Ricochet's installer is typically 12.00 MB in size and installs around 61 files.

Ricochet is most popular in the United States with 58.82% of installations residing in this country.

Ricochet adds 5 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Ricochet is known to create 5 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

hl.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Programe\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\hl.exe'.
Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
hltv.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Niku\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life\hltv.exe'.
SteamTmp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
hlds.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life\hlds.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F379847F-E7EF-4084-9B2F-B87B28202FA4}' (runs on registration).
hl.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{9B9E38FA-7DA3-426A-B7F1-26A18C16F531}' (runs on registration).
hlds.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{424AB74C-911C-4999-BEE9-8A91BA9EA944}' (runs on registration).
GameOverlayUI.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{98D22EE8-FBCE-4B0A-A638-4A27C81582F5}' (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.

Registry entries:

Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam.exe' and executes as C:\Program Files\steam\steam.exe.
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.steampowered.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\steam\steamapps\harrihuta\ricochet

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/60

Size:

12.00 MB

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