Estimated safety rating

backgroundtaskhost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria described bellow. It is not yet known if backgroundtaskhost.exe is a virus or an ok program which doesn't harm the PC. Please be careful with this program.

Executable file path

This program is usually found in C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTaskHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 0130864049ea1deded8df354dafca2ae.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is usually a good sign.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It does not exploit the full set of features of current computer processors. This is quite normal because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

The digital signature is missing from this program. The maker did not bother to sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall command set up in registry.