Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

Usually, this program is found in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.53.77.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeBackgroundHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 9b944a989dab1af5632dc302eee9dd77.

Is running as a service

This application is NOT a Windows service. This is good.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a 64-bit executable. It uses the full capacity of modern CPUs.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall command stored in registry.