Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is yet unknown if skypehost.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't harm the computer. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This program is normally stored on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.4.86.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is d2cd14115367071e58d48b1dacf80f9e.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. Today this is ok. For example, most of the programs on your PC check for new updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs in 32-bit mode. It does not benefit of the full power of modern PC processors. This is quite normal because the publishers did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

The digital signature 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 a removal routine set up in registry.