Critical risk detected
Old domain hosting a placeholder page tied to Cineby piracy mirrors flagged for pop-ups and malware risks. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is cineby.com legit or a scam?
Old domain hosting a placeholder page tied to Cineby piracy mirrors flagged for pop-ups and malware risks.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page loads almost no content beyond a short greeting and carries the title MP42.com. Gridinsoft marked the URL suspicious while the hosting IP shows five abuse reports. Evidence links the Cineby name to multiple mirrors that users report for aggressive ads and sketchy downloads. The 17-year-old registration reduces the chance of a brand-new scam but does not remove the association with problematic streaming clones. No contact details or business records appear on the site itself.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cineby.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - cineby.com registered 6233 days ago (~17 years)
- - Active Cineby streaming sites include cineby.sc, cineby.gd, cineby.cc, cineby.win with frequent domain changes noted on Reddit r/Piracy
- - Reddit users report heavy popup ads, malware flags by extensions, and intermittent downtime on Cineby domains
- - Trustpilot for cineby.sc has 5 reviews mixing praise for free content with complaints about ads
- - Security scans (e.g. pcrisk.com) flag related domains like cineby.sc with low trust scores and piracy category
- - No direct scam reports or business filings specifically for cineby.com; searches primarily surface variant domains
- howtoremove.guideopen
"Cineby.sc streaming site raises security concerns with pop-ups, redirects, sketchy downloads. New domain mimics legitimate apps."
- YouTubeopen
"This is the actual virus lol. Do not download or give this guy any information, especially payment information. This is a cheap scam to prey on the less knowledgeable that are worried they have a virus from visiting a streaming website."
Our research found two scam mentions for Cineby.sc on howtoremove.guide and YouTube describing pop-ups, redirects, and malware risks. independent review aggregator lists two positive reviews for free streaming mixed with complaints about ads. Reddit threads in r/Piracy mention heavy pop-ups and intermittent downtime on Cineby domains. No direct scam filings appear for cineby.com itself.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cineby.com/
- 2200http://mp42.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with cineby.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 flags cineby.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — cineby.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- cineby.com is 17.1 years old, registered on 5/13/2009 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged cineby.com as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. cineby.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cineby.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies 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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