No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is dev-c.com legit or a scam?
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Long-established game modding site (dev-c.com) with clean antivirus results and 12.8-year domain age.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate, non-commercial developer blog for game modding tools, showing no signs of malicious intent or deceptive patterns.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsThe site appears to be a personal developer blog for software modifications
Uses standard cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page
Content is consistent with a niche hobbyist project site
No aggressive urgency tactics, fake security badges, or suspicious forms detected
Intelligence
The domain registered in 2013 and has maintained the same purpose for over a decade. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page content matches a known hobbyist project distributing Script Hook V and similar GTA modding libraries. One automated trust checker assigned a low score due to privacy-protected ownership and occasional site downtime, yet no user complaints or scam reports appear in our research. The visual analysis confirms a straightforward blog layout without deceptive forms or urgency tactics. These factors together point to a legitimate, if niche, developer resource rather than a fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for dev-c.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- dev-c.com is a long-standing website (registered 2013) primarily known as the official distribution site for 'Script Hook V', a popular modding library for Grand Theft Auto V.
- The site is maintained by a developer known as 'Alexander Blade' and focuses on game modding tools for titles like GTA V, GTA IV, and Fallout.
- The website frequently experiences technical issues, including site outages and SSL certificate errors, which often lead users to report it as suspicious or inaccessible.
- While some automated security scanners (like Scam Detector) flag the site with a low trust score due to hidden ownership and technical instability, it is widely referenced by the gaming community as the primary source for specific modding s
- The site is distinct from 'dev-cpp.com', which is the official website for the Dev-C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
- Scam Detectoropen
"Scam Detector has determined that dev-c.com in the popular Gaming & Esports industry is merely a façade... The Scam Detector's algorithm gives this business the following rank: 18.1/100."
Our research located one automated trust checker that assigned dev-c.com a low score of 18.1/100, primarily due to privacy-protected ownership and occasional site instability. No consumer complaints, scam reports, or negative forum threads appeared in broader searches. Gaming communities consistently reference the site as the legitimate home of Script Hook V by developer Alexander Blade, noting that downtime and SSL certificate hiccups sometimes cause temporary access concerns but do not indicate fraud.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 9, 2013Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 years old today.
- Jul 21, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
dev-c.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2006-2026).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://dev-c.com/
- 2200https://dev-c.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 dev-c.com and not a lookalike like d-ev-c.com.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is a 12-year-old developer blog hosting game modding tools. The strongest signal is its long domain history and clean scan record despite one low trust score from an automated checker.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 dev-c.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 12.8 years old, registered on October 9, 2013 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- dev-c.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from dev-c.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from dev-c.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report dev-c.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — dev-c.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- dev-c.com is 12.8 years old, registered on October 9, 2013 through Moniker Online Services LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — dev-c.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 50 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- dev-c.com resolves to an IP operated by HostGator.com LLC in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 21, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about dev-c.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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