Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

The default filename and path where the program is stored is
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.11.110.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is cfd8713319e19aa43948698854b9dce3.

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 expected from a program. For example, most of the programs on your PC check for updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It does not use the full set of features of nowadays' PC processors. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have an uninstall routine stored in registry.