Is thebenchpress.com safe?
http://thebenchpress.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
A long-running Florida gym-equipment retailer with a verifiable business record, held back only by a stale antivirus hit and no postal address on its own pages.
TheBenchPress.com sells commercial gym equipment — power racks, benches, cardio machines, saunas — and its checkout, cart and purchase-order links all stay on its own domain. The registrable domain dates to 2002, and an independent Better Business Bureau profile ties the store to a Largo, Florida address, the company name Top Site Media, Inc., and owner Anthony V. Spoto, with zero customer complaints listed. Nothing in the saved evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cross-domain order hand-off, a subscription trap or a payment-fraud flow. The score sits in the low-risk band rather than higher because one antivirus family reported malware in a stale saved scan, and because the site itself does not print a postal address.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLFortinetSaved antivirus result from Oct 24, 2026Where 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 82/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 2 findings pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 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.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured pages of this physical-goods retailer.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 8822 days old, created in 2002, matching the long-running retailer described in third-party profiles.
- SupportsA Better Business Bureau profile lists a Largo, FL address, the alternate name Top Site Media, Inc., principal Anthony V. Spoto, and 0 customer complaints.
- SupportsThe site displays a mailbox on its own domain and a toll-free phone number.
- SupportsA public record in public web research reads: "TheBenchPress.Com is a commercial fitness gym equipment provider based in Largo, FL."
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
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).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
TheBenchPress.com sells commercial gym equipment — power racks, benches, cardio machines, saunas — and its checkout, cart and purchase-order links all stay on its own domain. The registrable domain dates to 2002, and an independent Better Business Bureau profile ties the store to a Largo, Florida address, the company name Top Site Media, Inc., and owner Anthony V. Spoto, with zero customer complaints listed. Nothing in the saved evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cross-domain order hand-off, a subscription trap or a payment-fraud flow. The score sits in the low-risk band rather than higher because one antivirus family reported malware in a stale saved scan, and because the site itself does not print a postal address.
A real store with a paper trail, and orders that stay on its own domain
The business identity checks out against outside records. The Better Business Bureau profile lists 11121 104th Ave, Largo, FL 33778-4107, an alternate business name of Top Site Media, Inc., principal Mr. Anthony V. Spoto, and 0 customer complaints. A separate company profile describes TheBenchPress.com as a commercial fitness gym equipment provider based in Largo, FL, and a vendor case study says the store had been running on the same e-commerce platform for over 20 years. The registrable domain is 8822 days old, which fits that history rather than a freshly built storefront.
The buying path is ordinary retail. The cart counter, 'View Cart' and 'Purchase Order' links all resolve to thebenchpress.com itself, so there is no cross-domain hand-off at the order stage. Alongside direct purchase the store runs quote funnels — a price-match form asking for name, email, phone and a competitor item URL, a bundled-quote form and an 'Equipment Looking For' form — plus a 'Get a Discount Price Quote' prompt. Those forms collect contact details for a sales follow-up, which is normal for high-ticket freight equipment, but it does mean your phone number and email go to a sales team.
Contact channels are on-brand: a mailbox on the store's own domain, sales@thebenchpress.com, and a toll-free number, 877 224-6447, shown site-wide. A free Gmail inbox is also listed next to the domain address, which is common for small retailers but is a weaker contact route than the domain mailbox. The store also advertises gift certificates, equipment financing and a price-match guarantee, and a third-party financing domain appears among its outbound links, so expect a separate application step if you use that financing.
Clean browsing and encryption, one stale malware verdict, and a missing address
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so the page itself is not flagged and traffic is encrypted. The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 26 saved reports, though that IP is shared CDN infrastructure, so the clean score is not specific to this store.
The one adverse technical item is a saved antivirus scan in which a single engine family reported malware, with 57 harmless and 35 undetected results across 93 engines. That scan is stale, no other engine corroborates it, and nothing in the rendered page behaviour matches a malware delivery flow. Treat it as an unresolved single-engine result rather than proof of an infection, but it is the reason this site is not rated higher.
The operator-side gap is transparency on the site itself: no postal address is visible on the captured pages, even though this is a physical-goods retailer with delivery and installation pages. The address does exist in the BBB record, so this is a disclosure shortfall rather than a hidden operator. No subscription, trial or recurring-billing language was found in the captured policy pages, and no user complaints surfaced in the searches performed.
Why the score is 82
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 24, 2026 - 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
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| FortinetMalicious | malware |
All 93 engine results
- Fortinet - malware - Malicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- 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
- 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 - Clean
- 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 - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Health
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleshopping
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a 'THE BENCH PRESS — OWNED BY WEIGHTLIFTERS' logo with a barbell graphic, plus a toll-free phone number 877 224-6447 and a cart icon showing 0. Red banner text reads 'Free shipping on most items ! Price Match Guarantee.' Category menu lists Special Offers, Cardio, Gym Systems, Benches, Power Racks, Machines, Free Weight, Barbells, Accessories, Sauna & Tubs, plus a secondary bar with Offers, Massage Chairs, Pre-Owned Equipment, How It Works, Purchase Order, Gym Gallery, Browse By Brand. Hero slide shows a stock photo of a commercial airliner on a tarmac with overlaid text 'Free Shipping on most orders in US' and 'On most items shipped in the US', plus a 'Read More' button. Bottom cookie banner states 'By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies' with a 'More info' link and an 'Accept Cookie' button.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Header shows a 'THE BENCH PRESS — OWNED BY WEIGHTLIFTERS' logo with a barbell graphic, plus a toll-free phone number 877 224-6447 and a cart icon showing 0.
- 02
Red banner text reads 'Free shipping on most items ! Price Match Guarantee.'
- 03
Category menu lists Special Offers, Cardio, Gym Systems, Benches, Power Racks, Machines, Free Weight, Barbells, Accessories, Sauna & Tubs, plus a secondary bar with Offers, Massage Chairs, Pre-Owned Equipment, How It Works, Purchase Order, Gym Gallery, Browse By Brand.
- 04
Hero slide shows a stock photo of a commercial airliner on a tarmac with overlaid text 'Free Shipping on most orders in US' and 'On most items shipped in the US', plus a 'Read More' button.
- 05
Bottom cookie banner states 'By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies' with a 'More info' link and an 'Accept Cookie' button.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Commercial Fitness Gym Equipment Largo, FL- TheBenchPress.Com
- Meta description
Buy Commercial Home Gyms set up with Fitness Equipment at The Bench Press, Largo, FL , the largest suppliers of Power Racks, Benches, Cross Fit, Barbells all sorts of used Body Solid Exercise Equipments.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-usRead
- Terms/terms-and-conditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/returns-policyRead
- Shipping policy/delivery-and-installationRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Commercial Fitness Gym Equipment Largo, FL- TheBenchPress.Com
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
9 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 8822 days old, created in 2002, matching the long-running retailer described in third-party profiles.
- 02A Better Business Bureau profile lists a Largo, FL address, the alternate name Top Site Media, Inc., principal Anthony V. Spoto, and 0 customer complaints.
- 03A public record in public web research reads: "TheBenchPress.Com is a commercial fitness gym equipment provider based in Largo, FL."
Web research findings
Independent findings for thebenchpress.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Better Business Bureauopen
"Location of This Business - 11121 104th Ave, Largo, FL 33778-4107"
- Better Business Bureauopen
"Alternate Business Name - Top Site Media, Inc."
- Better Business Bureauopen
"Principal - Mr. Anthony V. Spoto, Owner"
- Better Business Bureauopen
"Customer Complaints 0 Customer Complaints"
- Kona Equityopen
"TheBenchPress.Com is a commercial fitness gym equipment provider based in Largo, FL."
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainthebenchpress.com
- Redirects towww.thebenchpress.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · wildergymequipment.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 11, 2002Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 24 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 7, 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.
thebenchpress.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.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (sales@thebenchpress.com).
- Phone number listed (877 224-6447).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for thebenchpress.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
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
- cdnjs
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://thebenchpress.com/
- 2301https://thebenchpress.com/
- 3200https://www.thebenchpress.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
- 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 operator postal address is visible on the captured pages of this physical-goods retailer.
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 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 24, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Independent research | 9 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 24, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Independent research
- Result9 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is thebenchpress.com a scam or is it safe?
Is thebenchpress.com safe to use?
Has thebenchpress.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is thebenchpress.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does thebenchpress.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
A long-running Florida gym-equipment retailer with a verifiable business record, held back only by a stale antivirus hit and no postal address on its own pages.
TheBenchPress.com sells commercial gym equipment — power racks, benches, cardio machines, saunas — and its checkout, cart and purchase-order links all stay on its own domain. The registrable domain dates to 2002, and an independent Better Business Bureau profile ties the store to a Largo, Florida address, the company name Top Site Media, Inc., and owner Anthony V. Spoto, with zero customer complaints listed. Nothing in the saved evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cross-domain order hand-off, a subscription trap or a payment-fraud flow. The score sits in the low-risk band rather than higher because one antivirus family reported malware in a stale saved scan, and because the site itself does not print a postal address.
09 · Community
Community
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