No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is rso.altervista.org legit or a scam?
Long-running directory of free web tools hosted on established Italian free hosting with zero malicious flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site functions as a categorized list of free online services and applications. Its domain was registered in 2000, giving it more than two decades of history. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Independent review sites assign it top trust scores with no complaints or scam mentions recorded. The page itself displays straightforward directory content without login forms, payment requests, or suspicious redirects.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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
The screenshot shows a fully rendered directory-style site listing free web tools with no visible scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rso.altervista.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain created December 22, 2000 (25+ years old per multiple sources)
- Hosted on Altervista.org, a legitimate free Italian web hosting service since 2000
- Site content: directory of over 1000 free online services/apps categorized by type (page title/description confirm)
- Estimated traffic: ~278 daily unique visitors, ~8340 monthly (UpDownToday)
- Trust scores from scanners: 99% excellent (Scamdoc), 100/100 legit with no malware/phishing (Gridinsoft)
- Associated public pages: Facebook (@rsogonline, 23-24 likes), Ko-fi donation page for the site
- No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or brand clone references found across searches
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Positive mentions on independent review sites note high trust scores and confirm the site as legitimate. The domain is hosted on Altervista, a long-running free hosting service, with traffic estimates around a few hundred daily visitors.
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.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
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 rso.altervista.org and not a lookalike like r-so.altervista.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 rso.altervista.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rso.altervista.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. rso.altervista.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 41 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- rso.altervista.org is 25.5 years old, registered on 12/22/2000 through Tucows Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report rso.altervista.org as clean.
- No. rso.altervista.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rso.altervista.org 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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