Is bocholt.be safe?
http://bocholt.be/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not available: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
Official municipal portal for Bocholt, Belgium — no threats or deceptive commercial mechanics found
bocholt.be is the official homepage of the municipality of Bocholt, Belgium. The reviewed screenshot shows a government information portal with a navigation menu, a search bar and service shortcuts such as appointment booking and an e-counter, branded for Gemeente Bocholt. Contact is handled through an email address on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be, and the site's saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. No affiliate, monetization or deceptive commercial element appears in the reviewed material; the site is a free public information service.
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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 88/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site presents itself as the official municipal portal for Bocholt, Belgium, with municipal service navigation and branding.
- SupportsContact is provided through an email address on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be.
- SupportsThe saved checks found a valid encrypted connection and no safety-browsing threat warning.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
bocholt.be is the official homepage of the municipality of Bocholt, Belgium. The reviewed screenshot shows a government information portal with a navigation menu, a search bar and service shortcuts such as appointment booking and an e-counter, branded for Gemeente Bocholt. Contact is handled through an email address on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be, and the site's saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. No affiliate, monetization or deceptive commercial element appears in the reviewed material; the site is a free public information service.
A clearly identified public municipality website
The visual review describes bocholt.be as the official homepage for the municipality of Bocholt, with a navigation menu, a search bar, and quick-access icons for municipal services such as making an appointment and the e-counter. The contact email listed on the site is on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be, which is consistent with an official municipal presence rather than an anonymous commercial operator.
The page content matches what a municipal portal would normally offer: booking an appointment, an e-counter for administrative tasks, a local reporting point, job vacancies, and a village community centre. Outbound links point to the citizen appointment platform Appoint.be, the regional leisure calendar Uit in Vlaanderen, the Belgian data protection authority, the Flemish government oversight body, and the local police, all of which are ordinary public-service references rather than monetized redirects.
Technical checks are clean and the hosting reputation is neutral
The saved safety browsing check returned no threat warning for the site, and the saved certificate check found a valid encrypted connection. The IP hosting the site carries an abuse confidence score of 0 out of 100 across zero saved reports, which indicates no recorded hosting abuse rather than any active threat.
These results mean no malicious detections were found; they are consistent with the site's public-service role and do not point to malware, phishing, or deceptive download behavior. No commercial relationship IDs, affiliate parameters, or forced advertising flows appear in the reviewed link graph.
What a visitor encounters on the site
A visitor looking to handle municipal business is directed to an appointment-booking flow through Appoint.be or to the e-Loket for administrative tasks, the standard channels used by Belgian municipalities for citizen services.
The page also publishes practical information such as closure days for municipal offices and links to the local police website, which are consistent with an official local-government service rather than a commercial or deceptive endpoint.
Why the score is 88
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from July 28, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- 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
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- 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
- Gridinsoft - 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
- 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiReference
- BitDefenderblogs
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekergovernment
- Googlegovernment
- Sophosinformation technology
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
The website is the official homepage for the municipality of Bocholt, featuring a navigation menu, search bar, and quick-access icons for municipal services like appointments and the e-counter.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
The website is the official homepage for the municipality of Bocholt, featuring a navigation menu, search bar, and quick-access icons for municipal services like appointments and the e-counter.
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
Home - Gemeente Bocholt
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - Gemeente Bocholt
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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0 out of 100 across zero saved reports.
- 02Contact is provided through an email address on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be.
- 03The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection and no safety-browsing threat warning.
Web research findings
Independent findings for bocholt.be, 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 bocholt.be. 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.
- Domainbocholt.be
- Redirects tobocholt.be
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (gemeente@bocholt.be).
- Phone number listed (089 20 19 18).
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for bocholt.be.
A shared Cloudflare 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
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
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
- 1301http://bocholt.be/
- 2200https://bocholt.be/
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.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jul 28, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jul 28, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Official municipal portal for Bocholt, Belgium — no threats or deceptive commercial mechanics found
bocholt.be is the official homepage of the municipality of Bocholt, Belgium. The reviewed screenshot shows a government information portal with a navigation menu, a search bar and service shortcuts such as appointment booking and an e-counter, branded for Gemeente Bocholt. Contact is handled through an email address on the site's own domain, gemeente@bocholt.be, and the site's saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. No affiliate, monetization or deceptive commercial element appears in the reviewed material; the site is a free public information service.
09 · Community
Community
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