No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is acm.org legit or a scam?
Official site of the Association for Computing Machinery, a long-established non-profit computing society with clean security records and active business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site belongs to the Association for Computing Machinery, a well-known international learned society for computing founded in 1947. Our antivirus network and browser blocklist feeds returned completely clean results with zero detections. The domain was registered in 1992 and shows valid SSL with strong IP reputation and no abuse reports. Evidence confirms active 501(c)(3) status in the United States along with one positive trust assessment and only minor non-fraud complaints on forums. These factors together confirm the site is legitimate and not associated with any malicious activity.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Standard Cloudflare block page for acm.org with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for acm.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain acm.org registered February 14, 1992; expires February 15, 2028
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) founded September 15, 1947 as international learned society for computing
- 501(c)(3) not-for-profit with ~100,000-110,000 members; headquartered New York, NY
- Described as world's largest educational and scientific computing society
- Scamadviser rates acm.org as very likely legit and reliable
- Reddit users criticize paywalls, membership value, and email practices but no fraud reports
- Official site promotes ACM Digital Library, conferences, and policy resources
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, acm.org is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation founded September 15, 1947, headquartered in New York City
Our research found no scam reports for acm.org. One positive trust assessment described the site as very likely legitimate and reliable. Four complaints appeared on Reddit regarding paywalls and membership practices, but none involved fraud or malicious activity. Business records confirm the Association for Computing Machinery as an active 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1947.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://acm.org/
- 2403https://acm.org/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on acm.org and not a lookalike like a-cm.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on acm.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- acm.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. acm.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 140 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- acm.org is 34.3 years old, registered on 2/14/1992 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report acm.org as clean.
- No. acm.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- acm.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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