Is act-running.com safe?
http://act-running.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
ACT Running is a long-standing Shopify running-gear store with valid encryption and no active threat warnings, but it hides its legal operator identity.
ACT Running presents itself as an online shop for running apparel, built on the Shopify platform and offering standard account and cart functions. The domain has been registered for over three years, the connection is encrypted, and the browser threat feed reports no threat warning. The main weakness is transparency: the captured pages show no operator postal address, so the legal entity behind the store remains unverified. A single stale antivirus flag from one engine adds minor uncertainty but is not corroborated by other services. On balance the site looks like a real, if lightly documented, small e-commerce operation rather than a confirmed scam, which places it in the Low Risk band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 2 findings pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured page, leaving the legal seller identity unverified.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 1246 days old, which is inconsistent with a brand-new throwaway scam domain.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site.
- SupportsThe site lists a contact email on its own domain (run@act-running.com).
- SupportsA phone number is listed on the site.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ACT Running presents itself as an online shop for running apparel, built on the Shopify platform and offering standard account and cart functions. The domain has been registered for over three years, the connection is encrypted, and the browser threat feed reports no threat warning. The main weakness is transparency: the captured pages show no operator postal address, so the legal entity behind the store remains unverified. A single stale antivirus flag from one engine adds minor uncertainty but is not corroborated by other services. On balance the site looks like a real, if lightly documented, small e-commerce operation rather than a confirmed scam, which places it in the Low Risk band.
A Shopify storefront for running gear
The captured page blocks show account and cart controls in both French and English, including "Créer un compte" and "Ouvrir le panier" alongside "Create account" and "Open cart". These are the standard building blocks of a Shopify-hosted storefront, and the commercial link graph confirms that the account and cart actions point back to the same domain while the platform itself is Shopify.
The site also links out to Instagram, Strava and WhatsApp, which is consistent with a small running-focused brand maintaining social and community channels rather than a purely anonymous shell.
Clean technical checks, but the operator stays hidden
The technical picture is mostly reassuring. The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. One antivirus engine, Gridinsoft, marked the URL as suspicious in a saved observation, but that result is stale and not corroborated by other major services, so it is a minor flag rather than proof of active malware.
The operator side is weaker. The captured page shows no postal address for the business, so the legal identity and physical location of the seller cannot be confirmed from the site itself. The store does provide a contact email on its own domain and a phone number, which are positive transparency signals, but they do not replace a registered business address.
The domain is over three years old, which argues against a throwaway scam domain, and the site's own notice about shipping worldwide and returns from non-EU countries being at the buyer's expense is a normal commercial policy rather than a hidden trap.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 18, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerweb hosting
- Googleshopping
- Sophosonline shopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
You're visiting from outside the EU. We ship worldwide - returns from non-EU countries are at your expense.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
You're visiting from outside the EU. We ship worldwide - returns from non-EU countries are at your expense.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
ACT Running - Sustainable Performance
- Meta description
We design high performance and sustainable running gear.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/en-inter/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/en-inter/a/returnRead
- Contact page/en-inter/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
ACT Running - Sustainable Performance
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, leaving the legal seller identity unverified.
- 02The registrable domain is 1246 days old, which is inconsistent with a brand-new throwaway scam domain.
- 03The site lists a contact email on its own domain (run@act-running.com).
Web research findings
Independent findings for act-running.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for act-running.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainact-running.com
- Redirects toact-running.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- May 24, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 21, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
act-running.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (run@act-running.com).
- Phone number listed (1 86 76 71 12).
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for act-running.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Microsoft Clarity
- Meta Pixel
Chat, reviews and email
- Judge.me reviews
- Klaviyo
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
The site refused our redirect check, so the chain below is the one our page reader followed.
- 1301http://act-running.com/
- 2301https://act-running.com/
- 3200https://www.act-running.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, leaving the legal seller identity unverified.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 18, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 18, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is act-running.com a scam or is it safe?
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Has act-running.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is act-running.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
ACT Running is a long-standing Shopify running-gear store with valid encryption and no active threat warnings, but it hides its legal operator identity.
ACT Running presents itself as an online shop for running apparel, built on the Shopify platform and offering standard account and cart functions. The domain has been registered for over three years, the connection is encrypted, and the browser threat feed reports no threat warning. The main weakness is transparency: the captured pages show no operator postal address, so the legal entity behind the store remains unverified. A single stale antivirus flag from one engine adds minor uncertainty but is not corroborated by other services. On balance the site looks like a real, if lightly documented, small e-commerce operation rather than a confirmed scam, which places it in the Low Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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