Fake shop — do not order
Long-running security forum with clean scans but multiple complaints of misinformation and low trust scores on independent review sites. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
Is malwaretips.com legit or a scam?
Long-running security forum with clean scans but multiple complaints of misinformation and low trust scores on independent review sites.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site presents itself as a community forum focused on malware removal and tech support with thousands of threads. Strong legitimacy signals include a 15-year domain age, valid SSL, zero antivirus detections, and a clean hosting IP. However, the evidence package shows repeated user reports on independent review aggregator and Reddit accusing the site of spreading misinformation and damaging antivirus reputations. Push-notification requests and flagged scam-family patterns add minor concern even though no malware was detected. These reputation issues lower overall trust despite the technical cleanliness.
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for malwaretips.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age approximately 5651 days (~15.5 years old as of 2026)
- Facebook page describes it as 'Cybersecurity community (est. 2009)'
- Trustpilot: 13 reviews, overall score 2.5-2.6/5 (Poor), multiple users call it fake or scam
- Criticized on Reddit r/antivirus and Avast community forums for misinformation and damaging antivirus reputation
- Scamadviser reports low trust score and possible scam
- Multiple references to fake sites (e.g., malwaretips.org) impersonating the real malwaretips.com
- WHOIS shows Cloudflare registrar; site operates active forums with thousands of threads on security topics
- Trustpilotopen
"MalwareTips is definitely a garbage website and 100% FAKE. It's kind of ironic that a site that warns you about fake sites would be fake itself."
- Trustpilotopen
"Total lies. Scam site"
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, the trust score rating of the website is rather low. malwaretips.com may be a scam."
- Reddit r/antivirusopen
"Beware Malwaretips.com · This website is damaging to users , as it's jam-packed with misinformation"
- Malwarebytes Forumsopen
"It is a good site/forum .... and to my knowledge not connectet to malwarebytes."
Our research found four scam reports on independent review aggregator and Reddit describing the site as fake or spreading misinformation, plus thirteen total complaints. One positive review exists on Malwarebytes forums noting it as a legitimate discussion community. No business registration records were located.
Scam Network Intelligence
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Scam family match: Crypto-Only Checkout.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://malwaretips.com/
- 2200https://malwaretips.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Page mentions Google (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.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Page mentions Google (non-official domain).
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with malwaretips.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Trust History
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 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 flags malwaretips.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — malwaretips.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. malwaretips.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- malwaretips.com is 15.5 years old, registered on 12/9/2010 through Cloudflare, 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 malwaretips.com as clean.
- No. malwaretips.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- malwaretips.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- 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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