Is fmovies.co safe?

http://fmovies.co/

High RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

High-risk streaming site redirects to an enforcement-circumvention alias

FMovies presents a searchable, advertising-supported directory for free movie streaming, but fmovies.co redirects visitors to fmoviess.org. A regulatory order identifies that destination as an alias of the blocked fmovies.co site, while current security scanning records malicious and suspicious detections. These findings outweigh the clean connection checks and place the site in the High Risk range.

Avoid fmovies.co and its fmoviess.org redirect. Do not rely on the site's safety claims; use a legitimate streaming service instead.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

FMovies presents a searchable, advertising-supported directory for free movie streaming, but fmovies.co redirects visitors to fmoviess.org. A regulatory order identifies that destination as an alias of the blocked fmovies.co site, while current security scanning records malicious and suspicious detections. These findings outweigh the clean connection checks and place the site in the High Risk range.

Strong adverse evidence

The saved scan recorded two malicious and two suspicious detections among 93 engines, and two independent antivirus families returned adverse results.

Regulatory documentation says fmoviess.org is an alias of fmovies.co and describes the domain change as a repetition intended to follow an earlier access-blocking action.

Advertising-supported streaming directory

The destination offers a search interface and describes itself as a directory of public links rather than a host of video files. It also says advertisements help cover operating costs.

Those are the site's own claims and do not cancel the independent detections or the regulator's alias finding. Contact details were not reviewed, so this assessment does not make claims about what contact information the site provides.

Why the score is 28

2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

4/ 93

detections

Fresh result

4 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
2
Suspicious
2
Total
93
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
Chong Lua DaoMaliciousmalicious
SophosMaliciousmalware
alphaMountain.aiSuspicioussuspicious
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 93 engine results
  • Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
  • Sophos - malware - Malicious
  • alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
  • Gridinsoft - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - 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
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Clean
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
fmovies.co
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

FMovies – Watch Free Movies Online | The Ultimate Streaming Guide

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    FMovies – Watch Free Movies Online | The Ultimate Streaming Guide

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Fmovies - Watch Free Movies Online

  2. What we observed

    Saved browser evidence recorded forced redirects, cross domain landing.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

Aggressive Ads & Malvertising

Service and business model

Streaming Piracy

Advertising

Observed behavior

Forced RedirectsCross Domain Landing

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The requested fmovies.co address redirects to fmoviess.org.
  2. 02One public warning from an official or consumer-protection source: "La reiterazione consiste nella modifica del nome a dominio del sito https://fmovies.co, inibito con la citata delibera, nel nuovo https://fmoviess.org."
  3. 03Current scanning recorded two malicious and two suspicious detections, with adverse results from two independent antivirus families.

If this is a scam — what it means for you

What happens when visiting fmovies.co

Opening fmovies.co sends the visitor to fmoviess.org, exposing them to a different domain that a regulatory order identifies as an alias of the blocked site.

If this is a scam, how it works

The evidence-backed path

Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.

  1. At the destination, visitors can search or browse categorized streaming links, and the site states that its operation is funded by advertisements.

Avoid fmovies.co and its fmoviess.org redirect. Do not rely on the site's safety claims; use a legitimate streaming service instead.

Aggressive Ads & MalvertisingConfidence: High

Grounded in 6 saved evidence references.

Web research findings

Independent findings for fmovies.co, 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.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
2 complaints or warnings
Complaints and warnings (2)
Direct quotes from public complaints, negative reviews, warnings and security listings.
  • AGCOMopen

    "La reiterazione consiste nella modifica del nome a dominio del sito https://fmovies.co, inibito con la citata delibera, nel nuovo https://fmoviess.org."

  • AGCOMopen

    "Il sito fmoviess.org è un alias di fmovies.co, già segnalato ad AGCOM da FAPAV con l'istanza DDA/14751 e il cui accesso è stato inibito da AGCOM"

Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainfmovies.co
  2. Redirects tofmoviess.org
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesstatic.cloudflareinsights.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Apr 3, 2014
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 12 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 10, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated High Risk

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

fmovies.co is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Contact details were not reviewed (the page text was not read in full)
Emails on site's domainNot reviewed
Phone numbersNot reviewed
Postal addressNot reviewed
Linked social profiles0

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age12 years old
RegistrarTucows Domains Inc.
RegisteredApr 3, 2014
ExpiresApr 2, 2027
Owner privacyHidden
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresDec 4, 2026 (55d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
PopularityTop 200k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://fmovies.co/
  • 2200https://fmoviess.org/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

malicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

One public warning from an official or consumer-protection source: "La reiterazione consiste nella modifica del nome a dominio del sito https://fmovies.co, inibito con la citata delibera, nel nuovo https://fmoviess.org." · type search name search id nav-search-m placeholder Search

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result4 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 10, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Aggressive ads and redirects

Observed behavior includes unrelated pop-ups or redirects, notification prompts, or deceptive download controls. These are the primary risk unless the evidence separately proves a more serious mechanism.

  1. Treat fmovies.co as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  2. Close unexpected tabs and deny notification requests

    Do not follow an unrelated landing page, click "Allow notifications", or install a player, codec, browser extension, or update offered through an advert.

  3. If you clicked "Allow", turn the notifications back off

    Open your browser's Site Settings → Notifications, find the site, and set it to Block (or remove it). That stops the spam pop-ups it now pushes to your desktop.

  4. Remove anything installed through an advert

    Uninstall any browser extension, player, codec, or app added because of a pop-up, then run a reputable adware and malware scan. Do not call support numbers shown by unrelated landing pages.

    Open

Safer Alternatives

Trying to watch something? Use a safe option instead

Looking for something to watch? These are legal, malware-free ways to stream — several have free, ad-supported tiers, so there's no need to risk a sketchy pirate site.

  1. Crunchyroll

    Anime, subbed & dubbed — free ad-supported tier.

  2. Tubi

    Thousands of movies & shows, completely free (ads).

  3. Pluto TV

    Free live channels and on-demand, no account needed.

  4. Netflix

    Large catalogue incl. anime; paid subscription.

  5. Prime Video

    Movies, TV & anime; paid / Prime membership.

Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.

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 fmovies.co a scam or a legit site?
fmovies.co exposes visitors to aggressive advertising or malvertising behavior such as unrelated pop-ups, forced redirects, notification prompts, or deceptive download controls. 4 of 93 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). The external destination is a separate actor unless same-site evidence proves otherwise. Close unexpected tabs, deny notification requests, and do not install software offered through an advert.
Is fmovies.co safe to use?
fmovies.co has a Safety Score of 28/100 (High Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Avoid login, payment and downloads.
What is the risk from the ads and redirects on fmovies.co?
fmovies.co can expose visitors to unrelated pop-ups, forced redirects, notification prompts, or deceptive download controls. Simply seeing an advert is not the same as an infection, but following the landing, allowing notifications, or installing an offered player, codec, extension, or update creates real risk. Close unexpected tabs, block notification permission, and scan anything you downloaded before opening it.
Why does fmovies.co open unrelated pages or pop-ups?
The saved browser evidence shows an aggressive advertising or affiliate path. A play, convert, continue, or download control may open a separate destination, and that landing can request notifications or offer unwanted software. This is malvertising exposure; it does not mean every message on the external page was written by fmovies.co.
How do I stop the pop-ups or notifications from fmovies.co?
If you're getting pop-ups even after closing the page, you probably clicked "Allow" on a notification prompt — the spam now comes from your browser, not the site. Open your browser settings → Site Settings → Notifications, find fmovies.co (and anything else you don't recognise), and set it to Block or remove it. Then uninstall any extension, "player", or app you added because of the page, and run a reputable free adware/malware cleaner (e.g. Malwarebytes) to clear leftover PUPs.
Has fmovies.co been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 4 of 93 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged fmovies.co, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is fmovies.co on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — fmovies.co 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.
How old is the fmovies.co domain?
fmovies.co is 12 years old, registered on April 3, 2014 through Tucows Domains Inc. 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.
Does fmovies.co have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — fmovies.co presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 55 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".
Where is fmovies.co hosted?
fmovies.co resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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.
How often is the fmovies.co report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 10, 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 fmovies.co has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
28/100
High Risk

High-risk streaming site redirects to an enforcement-circumvention alias

Saved capturefmovies.coCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

FMovies presents a searchable, advertising-supported directory for free movie streaming, but fmovies.co redirects visitors to fmoviess.org. A regulatory order identifies that destination as an alias of the blocked fmovies.co site, while current security scanning records malicious and suspicious detections. These findings outweigh the clean connection checks and place the site in the High Risk range.

Recommended actionAvoid fmovies.co and its fmoviess.org redirect. Do not rely on the site's safety claims; use a legitimate streaming service instead.
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