Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. This program triggers many of the "possible danger" flags described bellow. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is malware or an ok program that doesn't cause harm the computer. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This application is usually stored in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.19.856.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 01224be9f703fbc945be9580e5050779.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs as a 32-bit program. It can not use the entire power of modern computer CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the makers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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