Estimated safety rating

skypebackgroundhost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is yet unknown if skypebackgroundhost.exe is malware or not that doesn't cause harm the PC. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

This application is normally stored on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.34.81.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeBackgroundHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 091371a419a0981164540b00c2baf48f.

Is running as a service

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

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a 64-bit executable. It runs using the full capacity of modern computer processors.

Digitally signed

A digital certificate is missing from this program. The authors did not sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall routine stored in registry.