Estimated safety rating

wuapihost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria described bellow. It is yet unknown if wuapihost.exe is a virus or not which doesn't cause harm the computer. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

The default name and folder where the application is stored is
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 registered as a Windows service. This is good.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the full set of features of nowadays' computer CPUs. 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 executable does NOT have an uninstall command set up in registry.