No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is pcrisk.com legit or a scam?
Long-running cybersecurity guides site operated by a Lithuanian company registered in 2007, with clean technical scans and one older complaint about paid software promotions.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a legitimate source of malware removal instructions and phishing alerts rather than a storefront or login page. Its domain is over 15 years old with a valid business registration in Lithuania dating to 2007, which strongly supports ongoing operation. Technical scans returned zero malicious flags and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. One community note criticizes past promotion of a paid antivirus product, while another independent review calls the site safe. No evidence of credential harvesting, malware distribution, or impersonation of legitimate brands for fraudulent purposes appears in the data.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, professional cybersecurity information site with no scam indicators visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as PayPal, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official PayPal property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pcrisk.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain pcrisk.com operated by RCS LT, UAB (Lithuania, reg. 300992563 since 2007)
- Publishes malware removal guides and threat news; promotes own Combo Cleaner antivirus
- Scamadviser rates site as 'Very Likely Safe' with good trust score
- Old 2010 Malwarebytes forum post about false positive blocking resolved as site helps fight malware
- WOT community score 61% with one review criticizing past Spyhunter promotions
- Has dedicated scanner subdomain scanner.pcrisk.com using 90+ engines
- Company site rcs-software.com confirms PCrisk portal established 2010
- WOTopen
"This site promotes an unhealthy amount of Spyhunter, which is scareware designed to make you pay for the premium version of it to “remove viruses”."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that pcrisk.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
RCS LT, UAB (reg no. 300992563, VAT LT100003403918), registered 08/08/2007, Kaunas address
Our research found one community note criticizing past promotion of paid antivirus software. A separate review site rates the domain as very likely safe. The operating company has maintained active registration in Lithuania since 2007 with a listed physical address.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates PayPal on a non-official domain.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pcrisk.com/
- 2200https://www.pcrisk.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on pcrisk.com and not a lookalike like p-crisk.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on pcrisk.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- pcrisk.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 74/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. pcrisk.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 43 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pcrisk.com is 15.9 years old, registered on 7/14/2010 through Name SRS AB. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report pcrisk.com as clean.
- No. pcrisk.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pcrisk.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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