Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

Usually, this application is located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.8.192.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 436d83b6f0e8f519560d662650a96aba.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the apps on your PC check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 64 bit executable file

64-bit code has been detected. This application can exploit the full power of a modern PC cpu.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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