Estimated safety rating

wuapihost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is not yet known if wuapihost.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't harm your PC. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This program is normally found on disk in C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 7b8df67bca2ec042ed8b71f5226b51ee.

Is running as a service

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs in 32-bit mode. It does not exploit the entire set of features of nowadays' PC processors. This is quite normal because the authors did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

A 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.