Is mountbrandoncottages.com safe?
http://mountbrandoncottages.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Long-established Irish cottage and pottery-school site carries unresolved malware detections
mountbrandoncottages.com presents itself as a self-catering cottage and pottery school in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, with a booking call to action and a Fáilte Ireland registration number. The domain is very old and the connection is properly encrypted, but 8 of 93 antivirus engines flag it as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, and the site's own pages give no explanation for that. Because the technical picture is contradictory and the operator's reputation could not be independently confirmed, we rate it Moderate Risk rather than Safe.
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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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive8 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 8582 days old, consistent with a long-standing small business.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
mountbrandoncottages.com presents itself as a self-catering cottage and pottery school in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, with a booking call to action and a Fáilte Ireland registration number. The domain is very old and the connection is properly encrypted, but 8 of 93 antivirus engines flag it as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, and the site's own pages give no explanation for that. Because the technical picture is contradictory and the operator's reputation could not be independently confirmed, we rate it Moderate Risk rather than Safe.
Contradictory technical signals
The saved scan shows 8 malicious and 3 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the aggregate view names 8 independent antivirus families returning an adverse result. That is a real, current signal and it is the main reason this site is not rated Safe.
Against that, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Clean blocklist and certificate results mean no detection was recorded there; they do not cancel the antivirus findings, and the two sets of results simply disagree.
Nothing in the reviewed material shows what the detections refer to — an injected script, a compromised hosting account, or a stale vendor signature. The cause remains unresolved, so visitors should treat the site as potentially compromised until it is cleaned or the flags are cleared.
What the site claims to be
The page branding reads as Mount Brandon Cottages & Pottery School, a small hospitality business, and the registrable domain is 8582 days old — over two decades — which is consistent with a long-running local operation rather than a throwaway storefront.
The only outbound links observed are a 'Watch the video' link to YouTube and a reference to Eblana Solutions, neither of which is marked as a paid or affiliate relationship. There is no cross-domain checkout, no supplement funnel and no forced redirect in the evidence, so the commercial risk here is not a deceptive sales mechanism.
Independent web research produced no complaint, warning or review evidence either way, so the operator's public reputation stays unverified. A long domain history and a printed registration number are context, not proof of safety.
Why the score is 58
8 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
11/ 93
detectionsFresh result
11 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 8
- Suspicious
- 3
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | malicious |
| FortinetMalicious | malware |
| LionicMalicious | malicious |
| MalwareURLMalicious | malware |
| RisingMalicious | malicious |
| SOCRadarMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| CertegoSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- CyRadar - Malicious
- Fortinet - malware - Malicious
- Lionic - Malicious
- MalwareURL - malware - Malicious
- Rising - Malicious
- SOCRadar - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- Certego - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - 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 - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - 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.aiBusiness/Economy, Suspicious, Travel
- BitDefendertravel
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekertravel
- Googlehospitality
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
Mount Brandon Cottages & Pottery School
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Mount Brandon Cottages & Pottery School
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
Home - Mount Brandon Cottages & Pottery School
- Meta description
Experience Mount Brandon, Ireland's beauty at our cozy cottages. Book your stay now and immerse in natural serenity!
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - Mount Brandon Cottages & Pottery School
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 018 malicious and 3 suspicious detections across 93 engines, with 8 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result.
- 028 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03The registrable domain is 8582 days old, consistent with a long-standing small business.
Web research findings
Independent findings for mountbrandoncottages.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 mountbrandoncottages.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.
- Domainmountbrandoncottages.com
- Redirects tomountbrandoncottages.com
- Hosted byBlacknight Internet Solutions Limited
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- May 6, 2003Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 3, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
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 (info@mountbrandoncottages.com).
- Phone number listed (+353599724789).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for mountbrandoncottages.com.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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://mountbrandoncottages.com/
- 2200https://mountbrandoncottages.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
8 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
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 | 11 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result11 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 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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Is mountbrandoncottages.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Long-established Irish cottage and pottery-school site carries unresolved malware detections
mountbrandoncottages.com presents itself as a self-catering cottage and pottery school in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, with a booking call to action and a Fáilte Ireland registration number. The domain is very old and the connection is properly encrypted, but 8 of 93 antivirus engines flag it as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, and the site's own pages give no explanation for that. Because the technical picture is contradictory and the operator's reputation could not be independently confirmed, we rate it Moderate Risk rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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