Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria described bellow. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is a virus or an ok program which doesn't cause harm the PC. We recommend you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

Usually, this application is located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.13.133.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is 2731b010373a8733931b7081da43c7eb.

Is running as a service

This application does NOT run as a Windows service. This is usually a good sign.

Accesses the internet

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This program runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the entire set of features of current PC CPUs. This is quite normal because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

The digital signature is missing from this program. The authors did not sign it. This is usually bad.

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have a removal routine stored in registry.