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 cause harm your PC. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

This application is usually found on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.5.165.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 9f353925c6be72649c0faeac79711326.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. Today this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps 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 64-bit executable. It uses the full capacity of modern CPUs.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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