Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers too 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 which doesn't harm your computer. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This program is normally stored on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.13.257.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 91e9cc8c6eb89f9dfdbd03b9f631ab97.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

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

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It runs using the full capacity of modern CPUs.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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