Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers many of the "probable danger" criteria described bellow. It is yet unknown if skypehost.exe is malware or an ok program that doesn't harm the computer. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

This program is usually found on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.10.572.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this file is 8ebaca57ee7032609f60b82d4b58ecee.

Is running as a service

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This program runs in 32-bit mode. It does not benefit of the entire set of features of current PC processors. This is quite normal because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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