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 "probable danger" flags described in this document. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is malware or not which doesn't cause harm the computer. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Normally, this application is stored in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.15.20002.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is c3ef139378171d8bb852beb6e759b7f1.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Accepts incoming connections

skypehost.exe appears to act as a net server. This means other computers can connect to it. This is sometimes ok, but in some cases it can facilitate a security breach. We advise looking at this carefully.

Accesses the internet

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This application runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the full set of features of current PC CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall string in registry, which is good. si are uninstall.