Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

The default filename and directory where this application is stored is
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.8.487.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is e088940abcc6b7de13bea1ce1b7d1ec5.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs in 32-bit mode. It does not exploit the entire set of features of modern computer chips. This ordinarily happens because the makers did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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