Is microsoft-store.co safe?
http://microsoft-store.co/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Three-day-old domain 'microsoft-store.co' mimics the Microsoft Store while operating as an unrelated Colombian reseller
This site presents itself as a Microsoft software storefront, but the pages name a different operator, 'Micro Software S.A.S', and give contact details on a separate domain, microsoftsoftware.com.co. The registrable domain is only 3 days old, the saved TLS check did not validate the connection, and one antivirus engine flagged the URL as suspicious. The combination of a brand-mimicking name, an extremely fresh registration, and unvalidated transport security places this in the High Risk band: it may be a genuine reseller's new domain, but nothing on the evidence supports trusting it with a purchase today.
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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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
- ModerateThe domain mimics the Microsoft Store while the site's own pages name 'Micro Software S.A.S' as the operator.
- MinorThe registrable domain is only 3 days old, giving no operating history for a storefront selling Microsoft licences.
- MinorThe saved TLS check did not validate the connection.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
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.
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- Change any password you entered
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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd registered this domain. ICANN's lookup shows the registrar's abuse contact.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This site presents itself as a Microsoft software storefront, but the pages name a different operator, 'Micro Software S.A.S', and give contact details on a separate domain, microsoftsoftware.com.co. The registrable domain is only 3 days old, the saved TLS check did not validate the connection, and one antivirus engine flagged the URL as suspicious. The combination of a brand-mimicking name, an extremely fresh registration, and unvalidated transport security places this in the High Risk band: it may be a genuine reseller's new domain, but nothing on the evidence supports trusting it with a purchase today.
A Microsoft-branded name over a different company's identity
The domain 'microsoft-store.co' reads as the official Microsoft Store, yet the site's own pages identify the operator as 'Micro Software S.A.S', a name that does not match the domain or the brand it evokes. The contact email is info@microsoftsoftware.com.co and the phone number is +57 304 5871552, both pointing to a separate domain rather than to microsoft-store.co itself.
Independent research links the same entity name to https://www.microsoftsoftware.com.co/, indicating the operator already runs a site under its own domain. Launching a near-identical storefront on a Microsoft-lookalike domain, rather than using the established one, is the kind of brand-adjacent naming that misleads visitors about who they are buying from.
Fresh registration and unvalidated TLS outweigh clean reputation checks
The registrable domain is 3 days old. For a storefront claiming to sell Microsoft licences, that is a strong adverse signal: there is no operating history, no established customer base, and no time for independent reviews to accumulate. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, which means no blocklist currently lists the URL, not that the operator is trustworthy.
The saved TLS check did not validate the connection, so the transport security of the site is not confirmed. One antivirus engine marked the URL as suspicious, an isolated detection with no vendor consensus, but it adds to the picture rather than offsetting it.
Why the score is 38
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 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
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googletechnology
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
Micro Software S.A.S
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Micro Software S.A.S
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
Micro Software S.A.S
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Micro Software S.A.S
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is only 3 days old, giving no operating history for a storefront selling Microsoft licences.
- 02The saved TLS check did not validate the connection.
- 03One antivirus engine marked the URL as suspicious, with no vendor consensus.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a buyer actually encounters
A visitor arriving on this domain is offered Microsoft product buttons such as 'Windows 11 Home', 'Windows 11 Pro' and 'Windows 11 Pro for WorkStations', which frames the site as a place to buy licences. The purchase decision is therefore made on a domain that is 3 days old and whose TLS connection was not validated.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The only off-site commercial path observed is a WhatsApp contact link, which routes the visitor away from the storefront to a messaging channel. Contact details on the page point to a different domain, microsoftsoftware.com.co, so any follow-up conversation happens outside the site the visitor originally trusted.
Do not buy Microsoft licences or send payment details through microsoft-store.co. The domain is 3 days old, its TLS connection was not validated, and it presents a Microsoft-style name while its own pages name a different company and route contact to microsoftsoftware.com.co. If you want to deal with that operator, verify the entity independently and use its established domain rather than this lookalike; for genuine Microsoft software, buy from Microsoft or an authorised reseller.
Web research findings
Independent findings for microsoft-store.co, 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 microsoft-store.co. 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.
- Domainmicrosoft-store.co
- Redirects tomicrosoft-store.co
- Hosted byColombia Hosting
- Referencesoss.maxcdn.com · wa.link
Domain Timeline
- Oct 17, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
microsoft-store.co was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Phone number listed (+57 304 5871552).
Domain & Encryption
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for www.microsoftsoftware.com.co.
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
Sites linked to this one
Other sites we have reports for that share something checkable with this one. A shared detail is a lead to compare, not proof that the sites have the same owner or the same risk; each keeps its own rating.
On the same server IP
Also served from 190.8.176.158 (Colombia Hosting). Unrelated sites can share a server, so this is a lead, not proof.
- microsoftsoftware.com.coModerate Risk
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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The domain mimics the Microsoft Store while the site's own pages name 'Micro Software S.A.S' as the operator. · The registrable domain is only 3 days old, giving no operating history for a storefront selling Microsoft licences.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 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.
Is microsoft-store.co a scam or a legit online store?
Is microsoft-store.co safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to microsoft-store.co?
Can I get my money back from microsoft-store.co?
I ordered from microsoft-store.co but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report microsoft-store.co?
Why does microsoft-store.co look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has microsoft-store.co been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is microsoft-store.co on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the microsoft-store.co domain?
Does microsoft-store.co have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the microsoft-store.co report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Three-day-old domain 'microsoft-store.co' mimics the Microsoft Store while operating as an unrelated Colombian reseller
This site presents itself as a Microsoft software storefront, but the pages name a different operator, 'Micro Software S.A.S', and give contact details on a separate domain, microsoftsoftware.com.co. The registrable domain is only 3 days old, the saved TLS check did not validate the connection, and one antivirus engine flagged the URL as suspicious. The combination of a brand-mimicking name, an extremely fresh registration, and unvalidated transport security places this in the High Risk band: it may be a genuine reseller's new domain, but nothing on the evidence supports trusting it with a purchase today.
09 · Community
Community
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