Is massmenus.com safe?
http://massmenus.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 66 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
MassMenus is an established Massachusetts dining blog that earns money through Amazon affiliate links
MassMenus presents itself as a food and dining resource for Massachusetts, publishing menu and recipe articles such as a guide to buying orgeat syrup. The domain is roughly eight years old, the connection is properly encrypted, and no threat warning was raised by the reputation checks we ran. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Its commercial model is affiliate: a 'Buy Now' button on the page routes visitors off-site to Amazon through a shortened amzn.to link, and a banner promotes an Amazon sale. That is ordinary affiliate monetization rather than a deceptive funnel, so the score sits in the low-risk band rather than Safe: the site is a commercial content property whose outbound shopping links should be understood as paid placements, not neutral recommendations.
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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 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. No adverse finding was saved; 6 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 2996 days old
- SupportsContact email on the site's own domain (hi@massmenus.com).
- SupportsPhone number listed ((617) 555-1234).
- SupportsPostal address visible on the page.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsGoogle Safe Browsing returned no threat warning
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
MassMenus presents itself as a food and dining resource for Massachusetts, publishing menu and recipe articles such as a guide to buying orgeat syrup. The domain is roughly eight years old, the connection is properly encrypted, and no threat warning was raised by the reputation checks we ran. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Its commercial model is affiliate: a 'Buy Now' button on the page routes visitors off-site to Amazon through a shortened amzn.to link, and a banner promotes an Amazon sale. That is ordinary affiliate monetization rather than a deceptive funnel, so the score sits in the low-risk band rather than Safe: the site is a commercial content property whose outbound shopping links should be understood as paid placements, not neutral recommendations.
A long-running local dining blog with disclosed contact details
The registrable domain is 2996 days old, which places its registration around eight years back. That history is consistent with the site's positioning as an ongoing editorial resource rather than a throwaway storefront.
The pages we reviewed carry a contact email on the site's own domain (hi@massmenus.com), a listed phone number, and a visible postal address. Those are the ordinary trappings of a real publishing operation, though they are self-reported and were not independently verified against a business registry.
The content itself is dining-oriented: one reviewed article covers where to buy orgeat syrup and how to make it at home, and the page links out to reference sites such as AllMenus, Groupon, DineHere and GiftyPedia. Nothing in the reviewed text resembles a checkout, a login form, or a request for payment details.
How the site makes money: Amazon affiliate links
The clearest commercial mechanism is a 'Buy Now' button that sends visitors from massmenus.com to amzn.to, Amazon's link-shortening domain. The link is flagged in our commercial graph as an explicit monetization path, meaning the site is paid when a visitor follows it and buys.
A product block for 'Zevo 4 Flying Insect Traps & 4 Cartridges' sits alongside that button, and a banner captured in the page imagery reads 'Save Big On Amazon Sale - Limited Time! Shop Now on Amazon!' Both point at the same destination pattern: the site is a storefront for other retailers' goods, not a seller itself.
This is a normal, disclosed-in-practice affiliate arrangement. It is worth flagging because a reader may treat a product mention as editorial advice when it is in fact a paid placement, but it is not a deceptive funnel, a subscription trap, or a fake shop.
Clean technical checks, no operator-level red flags
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0 out of 100 across zero saved reports. These results mean no detections were recorded; they do not by themselves certify the operator's conduct.
On the operator side, the reviewed evidence shows no confirmed risk mechanics: no credential harvesting, no download prompts, no payment collection, and no cross-domain order path that would put a visitor's money or data at risk. The only cross-site commercial link is the Amazon affiliate route described above.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 66
No detectionsSaved analysis from March 13, 2019 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 7 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 66
All 66 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- C-SIRT - Clean
- Certly - Clean
- CLEAN MX - Clean
- Comodo Site Inspector - Clean
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Malc0de Database - Clean
- Malekal - Clean
- Malware Domain Blocklist - Clean
- Malwarebytes hpHosts - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Opera - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Sophos - Unrated
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderbusiness
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerrestaurants and dining
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
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
Save Big On Amazon Sale - Limited Time! Shop Now on Amazon! Zevo 4 Flying Insect Traps & 4 Cartridges
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Save Big On Amazon Sale - Limited Time! Shop Now on Amazon!
- 02
Zevo 4 Flying Insect Traps & 4 Cartridges
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
MassMenus » Exploring Menus & Recipes
- Meta description
Discover restaurant menus, pricing, and recipes. Stay informed on your favorite dining spots and find inspiration for your next homemade meal with MassMenus.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about/Read
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
MassMenus » Exploring Menus & Recipes
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
Web research findings
Independent findings for massmenus.com, 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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for massmenus.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainmassmenus.com
- Redirects tomassmenus.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesweforads.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 4, 2018Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 18, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
massmenus.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (hi@massmenus.com).
- Phone number listed ((617) 555-1234).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for massmenus.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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://massmenus.com/
- 2200https://massmenus.com/
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
- Antiviruspartial
- 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
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 66 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Mar 13, 2019 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 66 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Mar 13, 2019
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 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
MassMenus is an established Massachusetts dining blog that earns money through Amazon affiliate links
MassMenus presents itself as a food and dining resource for Massachusetts, publishing menu and recipe articles such as a guide to buying orgeat syrup. The domain is roughly eight years old, the connection is properly encrypted, and no threat warning was raised by the reputation checks we ran. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Its commercial model is affiliate: a 'Buy Now' button on the page routes visitors off-site to Amazon through a shortened amzn.to link, and a banner promotes an Amazon sale. That is ordinary affiliate monetization rather than a deceptive funnel, so the score sits in the low-risk band rather than Safe: the site is a commercial content property whose outbound shopping links should be understood as paid placements, not neutral recommendations.
09 · Community
Community
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