Is sounds.spriters-resource.com safe?
http://sounds.spriters-resource.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture · limited: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Long-running game sound archive with clean security checks, but its own pages could not be reviewed
The Sounds Resource is a free, community-oriented repository of video game sound effects and audio assets, operating under the well-known 'The Spriters Resource' brand. The registrable domain is 7326 days old, indicating roughly two decades of continuous operation, and the saved security checks are clean: 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because the scanner received HTTP 403 responses, so the operator's identity, terms and current content were not directly reviewed. No commercial calls to action, affiliate relationships or cross-domain order paths were found. The score reflects a long-established, technically clean content site with an unverified operator surface rather than any observed harmful mechanism.
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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 74/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. No adverse finding was saved; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 7326 days old, indicating long-term operation.
- Supports0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The Sounds Resource is a free, community-oriented repository of video game sound effects and audio assets, operating under the well-known 'The Spriters Resource' brand. The registrable domain is 7326 days old, indicating roughly two decades of continuous operation, and the saved security checks are clean: 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because the scanner received HTTP 403 responses, so the operator's identity, terms and current content were not directly reviewed. No commercial calls to action, affiliate relationships or cross-domain order paths were found. The score reflects a long-established, technically clean content site with an unverified operator surface rather than any observed harmful mechanism.
Technical checks are clean
The saved scan results show 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 security engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. The saved TLS check also found a valid encrypted connection. These results mean no technical threat was detected at the time of scanning; they do not by themselves establish that the operator or its content is safe.
The only visual observation captured was a Cloudflare security verification page reading 'Performing security verification' for sounds.spriters-resource.com. That is a standard bot-protection interstitial, not evidence of malicious behavior, but it also means the scanner did not see the actual site content.
Operator surface could not be reviewed
The page content could not be read: the scanner received HTTP 403 and a retry as its own identity also returned HTTP 403. As a result, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was not reviewed. This limits confidence in any assessment of the operator's identity, terms of use or current content.
The registrable domain is 7326 days old, which is consistent with a long-standing community resource rather than a newly created site. That age is a supportive signal, but it does not substitute for reviewing the site's own pages or independent reputation evidence.
Why the score is 74
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 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
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - 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 - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- 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
- 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
- BitDefendergames
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerapplication and software download
- Googletechnology
- Sophosgames
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
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What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
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03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.
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
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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 7326 days old, indicating long-term operation.
- 02The page content could not be read (HTTP 403; retried as the scanner's own identity: HTTP 403), so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was not reviewed.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
Web research findings
Independent findings for sounds.spriters-resource.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 sounds.spriters-resource.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.
- Domainsounds.spriters-resource.com
- Redirects tosounds.spriters-resource.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Sep 28, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
sounds.spriters-resource.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for spriters-resource.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Redirect Chain
The site refused our redirect check, so this chain may be incomplete.
- 1301http://sounds.spriters-resource.com/
- 2403https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencepartial
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 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 | The site showed a challenge page instead of its content; 1 visible observation saved | Limited | No saved 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
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 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
- ResultThe site showed a challenge page instead of its content; 1 visible observation saved
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Long-running game sound archive with clean security checks, but its own pages could not be reviewed
The Sounds Resource is a free, community-oriented repository of video game sound effects and audio assets, operating under the well-known 'The Spriters Resource' brand. The registrable domain is 7326 days old, indicating roughly two decades of continuous operation, and the saved security checks are clean: 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because the scanner received HTTP 403 responses, so the operator's identity, terms and current content were not directly reviewed. No commercial calls to action, affiliate relationships or cross-domain order paths were found. The score reflects a long-established, technically clean content site with an unverified operator surface rather than any observed harmful mechanism.
09 · Community
Community
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