Is paladin.cc safe?
http://paladin.cc/
Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
Educational AI content storefront with a named operator, clear refund terms and clean technical checks
paladin.cc is the home of Dave Talas' AI Skill School, a paid self-paced course and community membership business. The site names a real corporate operator with a registration number, tax number, EU VAT ID and a physical Budapest address, uses a support email on its own domain, and publishes a 30-day full refund policy on every plan. Checkout is handled by mainstream processors (Stripe, including Circle checkout) and content was reviewed, so there is no unread-page concern. Technical checks are clean apart from one stale single-engine antivirus note. That is a normal small-education-business profile, which places it in the Safe 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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
paladin.cc is the home of Dave Talas' AI Skill School, a paid self-paced course and community membership business. The site names a real corporate operator with a registration number, tax number, EU VAT ID and a physical Budapest address, uses a support email on its own domain, and publishes a 30-day full refund policy on every plan. Checkout is handled by mainstream processors (Stripe, including Circle checkout) and content was reviewed, so there is no unread-page concern. Technical checks are clean apart from one stale single-engine antivirus note. That is a normal small-education-business profile, which places it in the Safe band.
A paid AI-training business run by a named company
The visible page identifies the brand as "Dave Talas" who "teach[es] people to use AI safely at work" — a course and community proposition, not a download portal or a gambling or crypto operation.
Independent company-registry research lines up with the operator block on the site: Cheatcode Kft. appears in a Hungarian company-information register, and Tálas Dávid is listed as its managing director. That is a checkable corporate footprint rather than an anonymous storefront.
The plans are described plainly as self-paced courses, community membership and related services, with a note that lesson content, features and schedules can change and that customers will be told if a plan's inclusions are significantly reduced.
How money and sign-ups actually flow
Payments are processed by Stripe, including payments made through Circle's checkout, and invoices are issued through Számlázz.hu. Prices are stated as excluding VAT, which is added at checkout where it applies — a standard European B2C/B2B presentation rather than concealed fees.
There is one cross-domain monetisation point: the newsletter capture form on the site is hosted on app.kit.com and collects first name and email address. This is a third-party mailing-list form, which is common marketing practice; there is no off-domain checkout and no separate order domain in the evidence.
The site publishes a 30-day refund term and states that emailing its own support address within 30 days of the first payment triggers a full refund on every plan.
Technical checks are clean; operator claims remain self-reported
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no active technical threat indicated in this scan.
One antivirus family, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, reported a "suspicious content" result in a stale saved observation. It is a single-engine, aging note against a site whose live technical checks are otherwise clean, so it is worth watching but does not outweigh the rest.
The operator details — support email on the site's own domain, Budapest address, company registration and tax numbers — are printed on the site itself. They correlate with independent corporate-register hits, but a printed identity is not proof of conduct; the score reflects the absence of any adverse conduct evidence, not an audit of the business.
Why the score is 88
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 67
detectionsSaved analysis from June 15, 2018 - 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
- 67
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | malicious |
All 67 engine results
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Malicious
- 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
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- 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
- Webutation - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
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
I'm Dave Talas. I teach people to use AI safely at work.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
I'm Dave Talas. I teach people to use AI safely at work.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Learn to use AI safely at work — Dave Talas
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Company block and Hungarian registry research both point to Cheatcode Kft. with a named managing director and a Budapest address.
- 02Own-domain support email plus a 30-day full-refund policy across all plans.
- 03Stripe/Circle checkout and Számlázz.hu invoicing with VAT added at checkout; newsletter capture uses a third-party form on app.kit.com.
Risk pattern correlation
Web research findings
Independent findings for paladin.cc, 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.
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.
- Domainpaladin.cc
- Redirects topaladin.cc
- Hosted byVercel, Inc
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Domain Timeline
- Feb 3, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.7 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 24, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
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 (support@paladin.cc).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://paladin.cc/
- 2206https://paladin.cc/
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
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.
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 | 1 of 67 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Jun 15, 2018 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 67 engines flagged
- CompletionLimited
- FindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jun 15, 2018
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 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
Educational AI content storefront with a named operator, clear refund terms and clean technical checks
paladin.cc is the home of Dave Talas' AI Skill School, a paid self-paced course and community membership business. The site names a real corporate operator with a registration number, tax number, EU VAT ID and a physical Budapest address, uses a support email on its own domain, and publishes a 30-day full refund policy on every plan. Checkout is handled by mainstream processors (Stripe, including Circle checkout) and content was reviewed, so there is no unread-page concern. Technical checks are clean apart from one stale single-engine antivirus note. That is a normal small-education-business profile, which places it in the Safe band.
09 · Community
Community
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