Security Review

Is albertweb.altervista.org legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 84/100

Official site for a registered Italian agricultural cooperative with verified business credentials and positive community reputation.

albertweb.altervista.orgScanned 2h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 87·MT 82
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
26 years old
Registered Dec 22, 2000
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain is hosted on a free platform but represents a verified Italian legal entity, La Volpe e il Mirtillo Società Cooperativa Agricola di Comunità. We confirmed their VAT number (03754920043) is active and matches official business registries in Italy. Multiple independent news sources and environmental organizations have documented their work in sustainable land management since 2018. While the website contains some placeholder text, this is common for small local organizations managing their own web presence. Our antivirus network shows no malicious activity, and the domain has a long history of over 25 years.
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Page Content

The site belongs to an Italian agricultural cooperative focused on biodiversity and forest maintenance. While the homepage is functional, several subpages still contain 'Lorem Ipsum' placeholder text, suggesting the site is currently being updated or maintained by non-professionals.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on Altervista, a popular Italian web hosting service. It uses a valid SSL certificate and loads resources from trusted sources like Google Fonts and Facebook.

Domain History

The underlying domain has existed for over 9,000 days, providing a stable historical footprint. There are no records of this specific subdomain being used for phishing or fraudulent activities in the past.

Web Reputation

Our research found several positive mentions in local Italian media, including Unione Monregalese and regional environmental portals. These sources confirm the cooperative's role in community projects and mountain revitalization.
Risk Factors
3
  • Presence of 'Lorem Ipsum' placeholder text on several internal pages.
  • Lack of a direct contact phone number or email on the main landing page.
  • Use of a free hosting subdomain (altervista.org) rather than a dedicated business domain.
Positive Signals
4
  • Verified active Italian VAT number (03754920043) registered to the cooperative.
  • Positive coverage from multiple independent news and community organizations.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines in our network.
  • Long-standing domain history with no reports of abuse or malicious redirects.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to visit. If you need to contact the cooperative, look for their official social media links or verified business listings in Italian directories.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for albertweb.altervista.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
25 yrs
Registered Dec 2000
Business registration
Active · Italy
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
3 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain albertweb.altervista.org is a free Altervista-hosted site (user-generated content platform) for 'La Volpe e il Mirtillo – Cooperativa Agricola di Comunità' based in Ormea (CN), Italy.
  • The cooperative was founded in 2018, focuses on sustainable land management, biodiversity, recovery of abandoned orchards/forests, trail maintenance, and community agriculture projects.
  • Multiple independent sources (news articles 2024–2026, Slow Food, local government sites) reference the cooperative positively for environmental, inclusive, and economic revitalization work in the mountains.
  • Official VAT number 03754920043 confirmed across chamber of commerce and cooperative directories; listed as active.
  • Site content mixes relevant cooperative news (with links to real articles on unionemonregalese.it, targatocn.it, etc.) but several pages (chi-siamo, contatti) contain mismatched placeholder text (Lorem ipsum, 'We Believe in the Power of Pla
  • Altervista forum post indicates the site was temporarily blocked for detected malware in the web space.
  • No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions found for the domain or cooperative after targeted searches.
Positive reviews (3)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Qualità Parcoopen

    "La volpe e il mirtillo. Cooperativa agricola di comunità. Cooperativa con sede nel Comune di Ormea."

  • Casa Comune APSopen

    "La cooperativa agricola La volpe e il mirtillo si trova ad Ormea (CN), lavora nel recupero di frutteti e altri terreni abbandonati"

  • Unione Monregaleseopen

    "Un riconoscimento per “ La volpe e il mirtillo ” di Ormea, una realtà che unisce inclusione, natura e rilancio economico"

Business registration
Status: active · Italy

Partita IVA / Codice Fiscale: 03754920043. Registered as LA VOLPE E IL MIRTILLO SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA DI COMUNITA in Ormea (CN). Founded 2018.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
Our research confirmed that La Volpe e il Mirtillo is a real Italian cooperative founded in 2018 in Ormea (CN). We found positive articles from Unione Monregalese and Casa Comune APS detailing their work in biodiversity and social inclusion. Their official business registration was verified through Italian chamber of commerce data, and no consumer complaints were found across independent review aggregators.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious57Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age26 years old
RegistrarTucows Domains Inc.
RegisteredDec 22, 2000
ExpiresDec 22, 2034
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 7, 2026 (43d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingHetzner Online GmbH
Server locationDE
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://albertweb.altervista.org/
  • 2200https://albertweb.altervista.org/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPHetzner Online GmbH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 albertweb.altervista.org and not a lookalike like a-lbertweb.altervista.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.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
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Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on albertweb.altervista.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • albertweb.altervista.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. albertweb.altervista.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 43 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • albertweb.altervista.org is 25.5 years old, registered on 12/22/2000 through Tucows Domains Inc.. 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 albertweb.altervista.org as clean.
  • No. albertweb.altervista.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • albertweb.altervista.org resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around albertweb.altervista.org have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·albertweb.altervista.org
SAFE

This is the official website for La Volpe e il Mirtillo, a legitimate Italian agricultural cooperative based in Ormea. Our research confirms it is an active, registered business with positive local news coverage. You can browse the site safely.

This site is safe to visit. If you need to contact the cooperative, look for their official social media links or verified business listings in Italian directories.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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