Is drive.proton.me a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on drive.proton.me. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is drive.proton.me safe to use?

drive.proton.me passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 74/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does drive.proton.me have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. drive.proton.me presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 78 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has drive.proton.me been flagged by antivirus engines?

1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged drive.proton.me as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.

Is drive.proton.me on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. drive.proton.me is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is drive.proton.me hosted?

drive.proton.me resolves to an IP operated by Proton AG in CH (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.

How often is the drive.proton.me report updated?

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.

SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is drive.proton.me legit or a scam?

Name: Is drive.proton.me legit or a scam?
Item: drive.proton.me
Rating: 4
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Safe· 74/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official Proton Drive login page from Proton AG with clean scans and confirmed Swiss business registration.

Why we trust it

Exact match to official Proton Drive branding and description.Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt.Hosting IP shows zero meaningful abuse reports.

drive.proton.meScanned 10d ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 35·MT 92

Category tags

cloud storagefile sharing95% MT confidence

Technical red flags (1)

1 of 92 engines flagged

Positive signals (3)

Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

Engines flagged this URL

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The page displays the exact Proton Drive branding and description for secure encrypted storage. Our antivirus network returned only a single low-reputation flag while browser blocklists stayed clean. The hosting IP shows zero meaningful abuse history and the SSL certificate is valid. Evidence from our research directly links drive.proton.me to the official proton.me/drive service, Proton AG registration in Switzerland, and references in app stores and documentation. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear anywhere in the collected data.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The site renders the standard Proton Drive interface with the correct title and meta description for encrypted file storage and sharing. No login form is present on the initial view, no contact details are listed, and no promotional or urgent language appears.

Infrastructure

Valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate with 78 days remaining. Hosting IP 185.70.42.40 carries an abuse score of 0/100. One minor antivirus flag from Chong Lua Dao was recorded but carries no reputation weight and is contradicted by all other engines.

Domain History

The subdomain belongs to the established proton.me domain family. Business records confirm Proton AG in Switzerland as the active parent company behind all Proton services including Drive.

Web Reputation

Zero scam reports or complaints were located. Multiple independent references, including the main Proton site, app-store listings, and documentation, explicitly direct users to drive.proton.me as the official web client.

Risk Factors

Single low-reputation antivirus flag from Chong Lua Dao with no supporting detections.

Positive Signals

Exact match to official Proton Drive branding and description.
Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt.
Hosting IP shows zero meaningful abuse reports.
Business registration confirms Proton AG, Switzerland as active operator.
Direct references from proton.me, app stores, and documentation confirm the domain.

AI Recommendation

This is the legitimate Proton Drive service. You can safely log in and use it for encrypted file storage.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

drive.proton.me

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual Screenshot 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.

/ 100

No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

The screenshot shows a clean, fully rendered Proton Drive login page with professional design and no scam indicators visible.

Visual risk0/100

Web Research Findings

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

Business registration

Active · Switzerland

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

No scam reports found

No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

drive.proton.me is the official web client for Proton Drive, linked directly from proton.me/drive and support pages
Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service by Proton AG (Switzerland), launched 2022 with free tier
Official apps on Google Play and Apple App Store reference proton.me/drive and drive.proton.me as the web client
Wikipedia lists https://proton.me/drive and drive.proton.me as the service website
Reddit discussions (r/ProtonDrive) reference drive.proton.me for login, sharing, and service status without flagging as fake
Proton documentation and blog posts (proton.me) explicitly direct users to https://drive.proton.me for access
No search results indicate the domain is a clone, typosquat, or associated with scams; phishing mentions involve impersonation of Proton domains, not this one

Business registration

Status: active · Switzerland

Proton AG, parent company of Proton services including Drive

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research confirms drive.proton.me is the official Proton Drive client operated by Proton AG in Switzerland. It is directly referenced from proton.me/drive, support pages, app-store listings, and documentation. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators were found.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live

1 engine flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

1Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines

of 92

Chong Lua Dao

Malicious· malicious

1 antivirus engine flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

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 profiles0

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

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13

ExpiresAug 13, 2026 (78d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingProton AG

Server locationCH

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://drive.proton.me/
2200https://drive.proton.me/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file1

ISPProton AG

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 drive.proton.me and not a lookalike like d-rive.proton.me.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.
Discuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

ListedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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 found no threat indicators on drive.proton.me. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·drive.proton.me

SAFE

This is the official Proton Drive web client operated by Proton AG in Switzerland. Clean security scans, valid SSL, and direct references from proton.me confirm legitimacy. Use it normally for secure file storage.

This is the legitimate Proton Drive service. You can safely log in and use it for encrypted file storage.

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