Is efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com safe?
https://efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture · not available: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
No current threat detection, but the download page could not be inspected
The specific URL showed no warning in current reputation checks and uses a valid encrypted connection. However, it returned HTTP 406 during inspection, so its page content and download process were not reviewed. Historical warnings also associate Softonic’s former downloader with adware-supported bundling and user harm, making a Low Risk rating more appropriate than a fully Safe verdict.
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 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 2 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Softonic's "Softonic Downloader" was described by their CEO Scott Arpajian as having "facilitated bad behaviour amongst third party vendors which ended up…"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "PUP.Optional.Softonic was Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for the Softonic Downloader, an adware-supported bundler targeting Windows systems."
What pushed the score up
- SupportsCurrent checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no browsing-safety warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 9753 days old
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The specific URL showed no warning in current reputation checks and uses a valid encrypted connection. However, it returned HTTP 406 during inspection, so its page content and download process were not reviewed. Historical warnings also associate Softonic’s former downloader with adware-supported bundling and user harm, making a Low Risk rating more appropriate than a fully Safe verdict.
Current technical checks are reassuring
The saved scan recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, while the browsing-safety check returned no threat warning. The URL also supported a valid encrypted connection.
The registrable domain is 9,753 days old, which provides longevity context but does not establish the safety of a particular download.
The actual page and download flow remain unverified
The page returned HTTP 406 during inspection, so its content, contact information, policies, and download controls could not be reviewed. It is therefore unclear from the available evidence whether this particular download uses any wrapper or additional offer.
Historical warnings say Softonic’s former downloader facilitated harmful conduct by third-party vendors and was detected as an adware-supported bundler. Separate research cautions that older complaints may concern that discontinued downloader, whereas newer issues may relate to individual ads, apps, support interactions, or files that differ from official releases.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 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
- 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
- Orcapot - Unrated
- 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
- Synthient - Unrated
- 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
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Dr.Webnot recommended site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerapplication and software download
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
- Sophosdownload freeware and shareware
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.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
- 01Current checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no browsing-safety warning.
- 02The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- 03The registrable domain is 9753 days old
Web research findings
Independent findings for efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com, 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.
- Wikipediaopen
"Softonic's "Softonic Downloader" was described by their CEO Scott Arpajian as having "facilitated bad behaviour amongst third party vendors which ended up harming the user", with malicious links impersonating the downloader itself."
- Malwarebytesopen
"PUP.Optional.Softonic was Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for the Softonic Downloader, an adware-supported bundler targeting Windows systems."
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.
- Domainefootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com
- Redirects toefootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com
- Hosted byFastly, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 28, 2000Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 26 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 12, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.softonic.com.
A shared Fastly address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidenceunavailable
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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Softonic's "Softonic Downloader" was described by their CEO Scott Arpajian as having "facilitated bad behaviour amongst third party vendors which ended up…" · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "PUP.Optional.Softonic was Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for the Softonic Downloader, an adware-supported bundler targeting Windows systems."
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 12, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 12, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | The saved page capture was not reliable enough to use | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 12, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
- Visual evidence
- ResultThe saved page capture was not reliable enough to use
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 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.
Is efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com a scam or is it safe?
Is efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com safe to use?
Has efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com domain?
Does efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com hosted?
How often is the efootball-pes-2021-season-update.en.softonic.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
No current threat detection, but the download page could not be inspected
The written conclusion remains part of the saved report.
The specific URL showed no warning in current reputation checks and uses a valid encrypted connection. However, it returned HTTP 406 during inspection, so its page content and download process were not reviewed. Historical warnings also associate Softonic’s former downloader with adware-supported bundling and user harm, making a Low Risk rating more appropriate than a fully Safe verdict.
09 · Community
Community
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