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 "probable danger" flags described bellow. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is a virus or not which doesn't harm your PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This application is normally found in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.10.145.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this file is 9ab092a0cf26368153dfcf56a7979610.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Accesses the internet

This executable uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the entire power of modern PC CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have a removal routine set up in registry.