Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers many of the "probable danger" criteria described in this document. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is a virus or an ok program that doesn't harm your PC. Please be careful with this program.

Executable file path

The default filename and path where the application is stored is
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.15.597.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this file is 505db3cd6b125dfe3b8cc2f3e017f4f2.

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. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It can not exploit the entire set of features of nowadays' computer chips. 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 maker did not sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall command set up in registry.