Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed in this document. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't harm the computer. Please be careful with it.

Executable file path

Normally, this program is located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.4.86.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is 0824176a492f7ecd40777d4d86ff7f67.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This program uses the net to communicate. Today this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It runs using the full capacity of modern CPUs.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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