Is steamonfire.com safe?
http://steamonfire.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
SteamOnFire offers "free pre-installed" PC games while 12 security engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing
SteamOnFire presents itself as a source of free, pre-installed Steam games for PC, listing titles such as Dead Island 2, Permafrost and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival as downloadable items. The problem is that the domain itself is flagged by 12 antivirus engines as malicious and by 1 as suspicious, with 10 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result. The site publishes no operator identity, no contact email and no verifiable business details, and the domain is only 337 days old. A valid TLS certificate and a clean browser threat feed result do not offset a multi-vendor malware and phishing verdict on a site whose entire purpose is to hand visitors executable game files. This is a Dangerous rating.
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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 18/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive10 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- ModerateThe site lists named PC game titles as free, pre-installed downloads, directing visitors toward executable files.
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
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
SteamOnFire presents itself as a source of free, pre-installed Steam games for PC, listing titles such as Dead Island 2, Permafrost and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival as downloadable items. The problem is that the domain itself is flagged by 12 antivirus engines as malicious and by 1 as suspicious, with 10 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result. The site publishes no operator identity, no contact email and no verifiable business details, and the domain is only 337 days old. A valid TLS certificate and a clean browser threat feed result do not offset a multi-vendor malware and phishing verdict on a site whose entire purpose is to hand visitors executable game files. This is a Dangerous rating.
A multi-vendor malware and phishing verdict on the domain itself
The strongest evidence in this case is not a page detail but the reputation of the domain. Twelve antivirus engines returned a malicious detection and one returned a suspicious detection across 93 engines, and 10 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. That is a decisive, multi-vendor consensus that the domain is associated with malicious activity, including phishing and malware distribution.
The site's own framing makes that verdict more serious, not less. SteamOnFire is built around offering free, pre-installed PC games, which means the natural visitor action is to download and run an executable file supplied by the site. A domain with this detection profile is exactly the wrong place to obtain software, because the download itself is the delivery mechanism.
Two technical checks came back clean: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those results only mean no problem was detected on those specific checks. They do not clear a domain that 12 engines have already flagged, and they say nothing about the safety of the files the site distributes.
No operator, no contact, and a domain less than a year old
The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator of steamonfire.com is not disclosed. A site that asks visitors to download and run game installers, while providing no way to identify or reach the people behind it, removes any route for accountability if something goes wrong.
The registrable domain is 337 days old. A young domain is not by itself proof of wrongdoing, but combined with an undisclosed operator and a heavy malware detection profile, it fits the pattern of a short-lived distribution site rather than an established software source.
Why the score is 18
10 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
13/ 93
detectionsFresh result
13 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 12
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| GridinsoftMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | malicious |
| RisingMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | malware |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - Malicious
- Rising - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - malware - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- LevelBlue - 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
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootMalware Sites
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekergames
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
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
SteamOnFire - Free Steam Games for PC Pre-installed
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
SteamOnFire - Free Steam Games for PC Pre-installed
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
SteamOnFire - Free Steam Games for PC Pre-installed
- Meta description
SteamOnFire is a trusted website for downloading free pre-installed PC games. Browse popular games, latest updates, and more.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
SteamOnFire - Free Steam Games for PC Pre-installed
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Malware & Deceptive Downloads
Service and business model
Downloader
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 0112 antivirus engines flagged the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious across 93 engines.
- 0210 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor follows the download offer
A visitor arriving at SteamOnFire sees game listings such as Dead Island 2 (v7.0.0.1244637 & ALL DLC), Permafrost (v0.44.2) and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival (v1.0.1.227219), each presented as a free, pre-installed download. The intended next step is to obtain and run one of those files.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
That step lands on a domain that 12 antivirus engines call malicious and 1 calls suspicious, with 10 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result. The exposure is therefore not theoretical: the download the site promotes is served from infrastructure that security vendors have already tied to malicious and phishing activity.
Do not download anything from steamonfire.com. The domain carries a 12-engine malicious verdict and a 10-vendor adverse consensus, and the site's core offer is executable game files from an operator who publishes no contact details. If you already downloaded or ran a file from this site, run a full scan with a reputable security tool, change any passwords you entered around that time, and treat any unexpected login or payment prompts as suspect. Use official storefronts for games instead.
Web research findings
Independent findings for steamonfire.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 steamonfire.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.
- Domainsteamonfire.com
- Redirects tosteamonfire.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 15, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 19, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (0.1244637).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for steamonfire.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.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://steamonfire.com/
- 2200https://steamonfire.com/
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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
10 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. · The site lists named PC game titles as free, pre-installed downloads, directing visitors toward executable files.
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 | 13 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result13 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 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 steamonfire.com a scam or a legit download site?
Is steamonfire.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to steamonfire.com?
Can I get my money back from steamonfire.com?
Is my device infected after visiting steamonfire.com?
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Why does steamonfire.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
SteamOnFire offers "free pre-installed" PC games while 12 security engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing
SteamOnFire presents itself as a source of free, pre-installed Steam games for PC, listing titles such as Dead Island 2, Permafrost and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival as downloadable items. The problem is that the domain itself is flagged by 12 antivirus engines as malicious and by 1 as suspicious, with 10 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result. The site publishes no operator identity, no contact email and no verifiable business details, and the domain is only 337 days old. A valid TLS certificate and a clean browser threat feed result do not offset a multi-vendor malware and phishing verdict on a site whose entire purpose is to hand visitors executable game files. This is a Dangerous rating.
09 · Community
Community
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