Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers many of the "possible danger" criteria described in this document. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is malware or not that doesn't harm your PC. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Usually, this program is found in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.18.614.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 6748cc8f11b7246efd4299105fbdcc22.

Is running as a service

This program is NOT registered as a Windows service. This is good.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the net to communicate. Today this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 64 bit executable file

64-bit code has been detected. This exe can use the full power of a current PC processor.

Digitally signed

The digital certificate is missing from this program. The publisher did not sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have an uninstall routine set up in registry.