No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is kde.org legit or a scam?
Official KDE open-source community website, registered since 1996, operated by a German non-profit with clean reputation and no security flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
KDE.org is the established, long-running homepage of the KDE free and open-source software community. The domain was registered in December 1996—over 29 years ago—and is legally represented by KDE e.V., a registered non-profit association in Germany since 1997. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. The page displays professional branding, coherent navigation, and legitimate organizational content (including a 30th-anniversary milestone banner). Web research confirmed KDE's presence on Wikipedia, positive community mentions across major Linux distributions, and no scam complaints. The 'PayPal impersonation' flag in the scan data refers to legitimate donation pages that use PayPal as a payment processor—a standard practice for non-profits, not a phishing indicator.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Screenshot shows the fully-rendered homepage of the KDE open-source software community with no scam indicators present. Design, branding, and content are consistent with a legitimate established software organization.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsOfficial KDE project homepage with consistent branding, navigation, and KDE gear logo favicon
Anniversary promotional banner ('KDE IS TURNING 30 THIS YEAR!') is a legitimate organizational milestone announcement, not a scam urgency tactic
Professional layout with coherent navigation menu, descriptive body text, and standard CTA buttons
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as PayPal, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official PayPal property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for kde.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- kde.org registered in December 1996 (over 29 years old).
- Official website of the KDE free and open-source software community, developers of Plasma desktop, used by NASA, CERN, Steam Deck, etc.
- Represented by KDE e.V., a registered German non-profit (eingetragener Verein) since 1997.
- Actively maintained with security advisories, donation pages (including PayPal), community forums, and GitHub mirrors.
- No direct scam reports found for kde.org itself; discussions of unrelated third-party KDE themes/widgets containing malware or fake KDE Connect sites.
- Positive mentions across Wikipedia, Reddit (/r/kde), Fedora, Arch Linux, and official distro integrations.
- KDE explicitly states its software contains no ads, spyware, crypto-mining, or user-hostile malware.
- Wikipediaopen
"KDE is an international free software community that develops free software. ... Website kde.org"
- Trustpilotopen
"Read Customer Service Reviews of kde.org - 3.6 Average. TrustScore 3.5 out of 5. 6 reviews."
- Scamadviser (on subdomain)open
"apps.kde.org is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
KDE e.V. (K Desktop Environment e.V.) is a registered non-profit association (eingetragener Verein) since 1997 in Tübingen/Berlin, representing the KDE community legally and financially.
Our web research found KDE.org documented on Wikipedia as the official website of the KDE international free-software community. Independent review aggregators rate the site positively, with a 3.6 average rating and 6 customer reviews on independent review aggregator. KDE e.V. is confirmed as a registered, active non-profit association in Germany since 1997. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found for kde.org. The organization is widely recognized and integrated into major Linux distributions and used by established institutions including NASA, CERN, and Mercedes.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates PayPal on a non-official domain.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (kde-ev-paypal@kde.org).
- Phone number listed (0318556).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://kde.org/
- 2200https://kde.org/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
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 kde.org and not a lookalike like k-de.org.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.
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 kde.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- kde.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. kde.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 146 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- kde.org is 29.5 years old, registered on 12/14/1996 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 kde.org as clean.
- No. kde.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- kde.org resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online AG in DE (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.
- 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.
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