Is hongkongwesterlo.be safe?
http://hongkongwesterlo.be/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (56 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not available: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
Hong Kong Westerlo is a real local restaurant's site, not a scam storefront
hongkongwesterlo.be presents itself as the online home of Hong Kong, a Chinese restaurant at Grote Markt 17 in Westerlo, Belgium. The site names the business, its address, its KBO company number and a phone number, and it offers order-and-pick-up and table-reservation actions. Independent local listings for the same address and name support that this is a genuine physical restaurant. Technical checks found no malware, no Safe Browsing warning and a valid encrypted connection. The only notable weakness is that business contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain, which is common for small local businesses and not evidence of fraud. The score reflects a legitimate local business with clean technical results and a minor contact-hygiene gap.
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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 88/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateBusiness contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent tourism and business directory listings match the restaurant name and address shown on the site.
- SupportsThe site names the business, its street address, company number, VAT number, email and phone number.
- SupportsNo malware detections, no Safe Browsing warning and a valid TLS connection were recorded.
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
hongkongwesterlo.be presents itself as the online home of Hong Kong, a Chinese restaurant at Grote Markt 17 in Westerlo, Belgium. The site names the business, its address, its KBO company number and a phone number, and it offers order-and-pick-up and table-reservation actions. Independent local listings for the same address and name support that this is a genuine physical restaurant. Technical checks found no malware, no Safe Browsing warning and a valid encrypted connection. The only notable weakness is that business contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain, which is common for small local businesses and not evidence of fraud. The score reflects a legitimate local business with clean technical results and a minor contact-hygiene gap.
A named local restaurant with a verifiable address
The site's own pages identify the operator as Hong Kong Westerlo, trading under that name, at Grote Markt 17, 2260 Westerlo, with company number 0666.985.460, VAT BE0666985460, an email address and a phone number. The primary page also shows the street address and a route-planning link, so a visitor can locate the physical premises.
Independent local sources list the same restaurant at the same address: a Westerlo tourism page and a local business directory both carry the Hong Kong entry at Grote Markt 17, 2260 Westerlo. That external corroboration is what separates this site from an anonymous storefront that only exists online.
Clean technical checks, with one minor contact weakness
The saved security checks are clean: no malicious or suspicious detections across the engines used, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. These results mean no threats were detected; they are not by themselves proof of good conduct, but here they align with the rest of the evidence.
The main weakness is contact hygiene: the business email is a free webmail inbox rather than an address on the restaurant's own domain. That is a common setup for small local businesses and does not indicate a scam, but it is worth noting because it is the only adverse signal in our review.
What a visitor actually does on the site
The site offers two main actions: 'Bestel & haal af' (order and pick up) and 'Reserveer een tafel' (reserve a table). A banner on the page states that online ordering is temporarily unavailable and asks customers to order by phone instead, so the ordering path is currently paused rather than hidden or broken.
The page also links out to orderandeat.be, a third-party ordering platform, which is a normal arrangement for a restaurant that does not run its own checkout. No affiliate or monetization relationship is attached to that link in the evidence.
Why the score is 88
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. 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 56 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 37 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 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- 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
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Online bestellen is tijdelijk niet beschikbaar. Gelieve telefonisch te bestellen.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Online bestellen is tijdelijk niet beschikbaar. Gelieve telefonisch te bestellen.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Hong Kong Chinese restaurant Westerlo – official site – Zin in heerlijk Chinees? Bestel online bij Hong Kong Westerlo. Met zorg bereid met verse ingrediënten, om af te halen en thuis van te genieten.
- Meta description
Geniet van heerlijke Chinese gerechten bij Hongkong in Westerlo. Ontdek onze klassiekers, bestel eenvoudig online en haal je bestelling bij ons af.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Hong Kong Chinese restaurant Westerlo – official site – Zin in heerlijk Chinees? Bestel online bij Hong Kong Westerlo. Met zorg bereid met verse ingrediënten, om af te halen en thuis van te genieten.
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The site names the business, its street address, company number, VAT number, email and phone number.
- 02A banner states online ordering is temporarily unavailable and directs customers to order by phone.
- 03Business contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hongkongwesterlo.be, 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.
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.
- Domainhongkongwesterlo.be
- Redirects towww.hongkongwesterlo.be
- Hosted byOVH GmbH
- Referencesgmpg.org · pics.orderandeat.eu
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (hotmail.com).
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (014 54 78 74 03).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.hongkongwesterlo.be.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://hongkongwesterlo.be/
- 2206https://www.hongkongwesterlo.be/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
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.
Business contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain.
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 22, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 22, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Hong Kong Westerlo is a real local restaurant's site, not a scam storefront
hongkongwesterlo.be presents itself as the online home of Hong Kong, a Chinese restaurant at Grote Markt 17 in Westerlo, Belgium. The site names the business, its address, its KBO company number and a phone number, and it offers order-and-pick-up and table-reservation actions. Independent local listings for the same address and name support that this is a genuine physical restaurant. Technical checks found no malware, no Safe Browsing warning and a valid encrypted connection. The only notable weakness is that business contact uses a free webmail address rather than a mailbox on the restaurant's own domain, which is common for small local businesses and not evidence of fraud. The score reflects a legitimate local business with clean technical results and a minor contact-hygiene gap.
09 · Community
Community
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