Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

This program is usually stored on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.46.60.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeBackgroundHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is 0a2f4748a6e162c9129865285abdd363.

Is running as a service

This program is NOT registered as a Windows service. This is very good.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It runs using the full capacity of nowadays' computer processors.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have a removal routine stored in registry.