Is getsharex.com legit or a scam?
Official website for the ShareX open-source project, featuring a 12-year-old domain and clean reputation across all major security engines.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The page displays the professional and expected visual identity of the ShareX open-source project with no indicators of scam patterns or malicious design.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout for the ShareX open-source software project
Links to legitimate third-party platforms including GitHub, Discord, and Reddit
Clean navigation menu with standard software project sections like Changelog and Source
High-quality screenshot of the application interface showing expected tools
No presence of fake trust badges, urgency tactics, or intrusive pop-ups
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 12 years, which is a strong indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 different security engines, and the site is not present on any major browser blocklists. Visual analysis confirms the page matches the professional and expected layout for the ShareX project, linking directly to official repositories on GitHub and verified listings on the Microsoft Store. While one report mentioned a similar-looking domain with a hyphen, this specific address is the verified original. The presence of valid SSL and high-quality social links further reinforces its status as a safe, community-driven project.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for getsharex.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- getsharex.com is the official website for the open-source ShareX screen capture tool, confirmed by its GitHub repository (github.com/ShareX/ShareX), Wikipedia, and multiple tech sites.
- Domain registered in 2013 (approximately 12-13 years old, aligning with the reported 4643 days), with over 32 million total downloads listed on the site.
- Downloads link to official GitHub releases (e.g., ShareX-20.2.0-setup-x64.exe); site emphasizes free, no ads, open source, privacy-first, and 18+ years of development.
- Scamadviser rates it as "Very Likely Safe" and "legit and safe to use and not a scam website," despite notes on hidden owner identity via privacy service and file-sharing risks.
- Trustpilot shows a 3.4-3.5/5 score from 5 reviews; positive feedback on SourceForge (5.0/5) and G2 (4.8/5) for the software.
- One Reddit post discusses a similar-looking fake domain (get-sharex.com with hyphen), but no complaints or malware reports found specifically for getsharex.com.
- No business entity registration found; operated as an open-source project by the ShareX Team with no advertisements or accounts required.
- Redditopen
"Almost opened the setup exe from this site: https://get-sharex.com/ . Is this site legit or does it distribute ShareX with some added malware"
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that getsharex.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
- Trustpilotopen
"ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk."
- SourceForgeopen
"I've been using this software for about three years during uni which has helped tremendously with my productivity by automating and speeding up certain parts of my daily workflow."
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2007-2026).
- Links to 15 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://getsharex.com/
- 2200https://getsharex.com/
Server Reputation
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 getsharex.com and not a lookalike like g-etsharex.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
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, 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 getsharex.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- getsharex.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. getsharex.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- getsharex.com is 12.7 years old, registered on 10/8/2013 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report getsharex.com as clean.
- No. getsharex.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- getsharex.com resolves to an IP operated by GitHub, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 26, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around getsharex.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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