Is pacevice.com safe?
http://pacevice.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
pacevice.com is a 77-day-old domain that redirects to a boilerplate 'cybersecurity professionals' notice page and carries an antivirus flag plus an abuse-tainted hosting IP.
pacevice.com does not present a real product, service, or storefront. The root domain redirects to fork.pacevice.com, which shows only a generic 'Notice for cybersecurity professionals' and a claim about 'authorized services through official partnerships with publishers' — boilerplate typical of ad-tech or content-gate infrastructure rather than a legitimate business. The registrable domain is only 77 days old, its hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports, and one independent antivirus family flagged the domain as malicious. The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read (HTTP 404), so there is no operator identity, no contact details, and no verifiable service to assess. The browser threat feed returned no warning and the TLS connection is valid, but those are absence-of-detection signals, not evidence of legitimacy. With no readable content, no established reputation, and adverse technical signals, the site falls in the High Risk band.
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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; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorThe registrable domain is only 77 days old, leaving no time to establish a legitimate reputation.
- MinorThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports.
- MinorThe site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read (HTTP 404), so no operator identity or service description is available.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted 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). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
pacevice.com does not present a real product, service, or storefront. The root domain redirects to fork.pacevice.com, which shows only a generic 'Notice for cybersecurity professionals' and a claim about 'authorized services through official partnerships with publishers' — boilerplate typical of ad-tech or content-gate infrastructure rather than a legitimate business. The registrable domain is only 77 days old, its hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports, and one independent antivirus family flagged the domain as malicious. The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read (HTTP 404), so there is no operator identity, no contact details, and no verifiable service to assess. The browser threat feed returned no warning and the TLS connection is valid, but those are absence-of-detection signals, not evidence of legitimacy. With no readable content, no established reputation, and adverse technical signals, the site falls in the High Risk band.
A redirect to a boilerplate notice, not a real service
The root domain pacevice.com redirects to fork.pacevice.com, where the visible content is a 'Notice for cybersecurity professionals' and a line stating the domain 'provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.' This is generic ad-tech or content-gate boilerplate. It names no operator, no company, no contact address, and no actual product or service.
The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because the page returned HTTP 404. That means there is no readable operator identity, no terms, no privacy policy, and no way for a visitor to verify who is behind the domain or what it does.
Clean TLS and Safe Browsing do not offset an antivirus flag and an abuse-tainted host
On the technical side, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those are absence-of-detection results, not proof of safety, and they do not describe what the site actually does.
Against that, one independent antivirus family (Bfore.Ai PreCrime) reported an adverse result for the domain. The registrable domain is only 77 days old, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports. A young domain on an IP with a history of abuse reports, combined with an antivirus flag and no readable site content, is a pattern that warrants caution rather than trust.
Why the score is 38
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 91
detectionsSaved analysis from September 15, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 91
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMalicious | malicious |
All 91 engine results
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Malicious
- 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
- 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 - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- 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
Notice for cybersecurity professionals This domain provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Notice for cybersecurity professionals
- 02
This domain provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
No page claim could be verified for pacevice.com because no usable page content or saved capture was available.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
2 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 011 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 02The registrable domain is only 77 days old, leaving no time to establish a legitimate reputation.
- 03The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually encounters
A visitor who reaches pacevice.com is redirected to fork.pacevice.com and sees only a 'Notice for cybersecurity professionals' and a claim about 'authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.' There is no product to buy, no service to sign up for, and no contact information to verify.
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.
Because the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read, a visitor cannot confirm who operates the domain, what data it collects, or what happens after interacting with it. The absence of any readable operator information is itself the main risk signal here.
Do not interact with pacevice.com or fork.pacevice.com. There is no verifiable service, no operator identity, and no readable policy content, while the domain is only 77 days old, its host IP carries 32 abuse reports, and one antivirus engine flags it as malicious. If you arrived here from an ad, pop-up, or redirect, close the tab and avoid entering any personal or payment information.
Web research findings
Independent findings for pacevice.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 pacevice.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.
- Domainpacevice.com
- Redirects tofork.pacevice.com
- Hosted byAmazon Technologies Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Aug 4, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 77 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.
pacevice.com 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.
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 fork.pacevice.com.
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pacevice.com/
- 2404https://fork.pacevice.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The registrable domain is only 77 days old, leaving no time to establish a legitimate reputation. · The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports.
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 91 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Sep 15, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 15, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- 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 pacevice.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is pacevice.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on pacevice.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from pacevice.com?
I ordered from pacevice.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report pacevice.com?
pacevice.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has pacevice.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is pacevice.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the pacevice.com domain?
Does pacevice.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
pacevice.com is a 77-day-old domain that redirects to a boilerplate 'cybersecurity professionals' notice page and carries an antivirus flag plus an abuse-tainted hosting IP.
pacevice.com does not present a real product, service, or storefront. The root domain redirects to fork.pacevice.com, which shows only a generic 'Notice for cybersecurity professionals' and a claim about 'authorized services through official partnerships with publishers' — boilerplate typical of ad-tech or content-gate infrastructure rather than a legitimate business. The registrable domain is only 77 days old, its hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 34/100 across 32 saved reports, and one independent antivirus family flagged the domain as malicious. The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read (HTTP 404), so there is no operator identity, no contact details, and no verifiable service to assess. The browser threat feed returned no warning and the TLS connection is valid, but those are absence-of-detection signals, not evidence of legitimacy. With no readable content, no established reputation, and adverse technical signals, the site falls in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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