Is micro-editor.github.io safe?
https://micro-editor.github.io/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 5 of 5 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not run: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
Official GitHub Pages site for the open-source micro text editor, with no scam or malware mechanics found
This is the project page for micro, a free terminal-based text editor, published on GitHub Pages and pointing visitors to its GitHub repository, releases and chat channels. Our review found no commercial funnel, no payment flow and no deceptive download controls; the only technical caveats are a third-party install script the project itself disclaims and a hosting IP with a mixed abuse history that is shared by many unrelated sites.
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 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 46/100 across 52 saved reports, which reflects shared GitHub Pages infrastructure.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent research ties the site to the micro editor's own GitHub repository.
- SupportsAll outbound links go to GitHub, Gitter, Twitter or Reddit with no affiliate or monetisation parameters.
- SupportsNo malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid TLS connection.
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).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This is the project page for micro, a free terminal-based text editor, published on GitHub Pages and pointing visitors to its GitHub repository, releases and chat channels. Our review found no commercial funnel, no payment flow and no deceptive download controls; the only technical caveats are a third-party install script the project itself disclaims and a hosting IP with a mixed abuse history that is shared by many unrelated sites.
A free open-source editor's documentation page
The page describes and documents micro, an open-source text editor, and links out to its GitHub project, issue tracker, tutorial and help pages for keybindings, commands, colors and options. Independent research matched the site to the micro editor's own GitHub repository, which is consistent with an official project page rather than a lookalike.
The 'Download' button and the installation links lead to the project's GitHub pages, and the site also points to a Gitter chat for support. Every outbound link in the saved page goes to GitHub, Gitter, Twitter or Reddit, and none of them carries an affiliate or monetisation parameter, so there is no paid funnel behind the download path.
Clean scans, with two caveats worth knowing
The saved checks are clean: no malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean nothing malicious was detected on the page itself; they do not by themselves vouch for the software you install afterwards.
The page itself warns that the 'curl | bash' installation method is a third-party pipe-to-shell script not under the control of the micro project. That is an honest disclosure, but it also means anyone using that shortcut is running code the project does not maintain, so the official release packages are the safer route.
The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 46 out of 100 across 52 saved reports. GitHub Pages addresses are shared by a very large number of unrelated sites, so this reflects the neighbourhood rather than this page, and it does not change the verdict on its own.
What a visitor actually does here
A visitor reads the feature overview and testimonials, then either presses 'Download' or follows the detailed installation instructions, both of which hand off to the project's GitHub repository. There is no account creation, no card entry and no cross-domain checkout on this site.
The only missing detail is a direct contact email on the captured page; support runs through the GitHub issue tracker and Gitter chat instead, which is normal for an open-source project.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 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 - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
- Sophosinformation technology
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
Visual context from the captured page
Third party pipe to shell script ( not under the control of micro ):
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Third party pipe to shell script ( not under the control of micro ):
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Micro - Home
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about.htmlRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Micro - Home
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was 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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Independent research ties the site to the micro editor's own GitHub repository.
- 02No malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid TLS connection.
- 03The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 46/100 across 52 saved reports, which reflects shared GitHub Pages infrastructure.
Web research findings
Independent findings for micro-editor.github.io, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- GitHubopen
"Website for the micro editor"
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainmicro-editor.github.io
- Redirects tomicro-editor.github.io
- Hosted byGitHub, Inc.
- Referencesbuttons.github.io · maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Links to 20 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.github.io.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
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.
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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 46/100 across 52 saved reports, which reflects shared GitHub Pages infrastructure.
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is micro-editor.github.io legit and safe?
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Could a legitimate site like micro-editor.github.io still be used in a scam?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Official GitHub Pages site for the open-source micro text editor, with no scam or malware mechanics found
This is the project page for micro, a free terminal-based text editor, published on GitHub Pages and pointing visitors to its GitHub repository, releases and chat channels. Our review found no commercial funnel, no payment flow and no deceptive download controls; the only technical caveats are a third-party install script the project itself disclaims and a hosting IP with a mixed abuse history that is shared by many unrelated sites.
09 · Community
Community
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