Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" flags detailed bellow. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is malware or not which doesn't harm your computer. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

This application is usually found on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.9.261.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is 72d4ce149acf399c124310e001a5fbd9.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is ok. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs as a 32-bit program. It does not exploit the full power of modern computer processors. This is quite normal because the makers did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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