SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is tsreader.co.uk legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official memorial site for TSReader MPEG-2 analyzer after original developer Rod Hewitt passed away in March 2025.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
tsreader.co.ukScanned 2h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 90·MT 85
Screenshot of tsreader.co.ukSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of tsreader.co.uk
LIVE RENDER
tsreader.co.uk

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual 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.

5
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The page appears to be a legitimate informational and download site for a technical software utility, showing no visual signs of malicious intent or deceptive patterns.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional software project page with clear technical description

Links to legitimate external platforms including GitHub and Facebook

Standard donation button for an open-source project

Consistent branding and navigation menu

Informational text regarding the author's passing and project continuity

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page presents itself as the new home for TSReader, a well-known MPEG-2 transport stream analyzer used by broadcast engineers. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The domain loads a functional informational site with links to GitHub and Facebook, plus a donation button for project hosting costs. Web research confirms the original domain coolstf.com went offline after the developer's death and that tsreader.co.uk was registered by friends and family with the consent of his son Elliott. The software is now offered free under GPL v3 with source code on GitHub. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators were found.
Risk Factors
2
  • No contact email, phone or postal address listed on the page.
  • Domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections from our antivirus network across 92 engines.
  • Hosting IP carries zero abuse reports.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Sectigo Limited.
  • Project continuity confirmed by family consent and GitHub repository.
  • Positive mentions on independent technical forums.
The full analysis

Page Content

The site displays a clean, professional layout describing TSReader as an MPEG-2 transport stream analyzer supporting DVB, ATSC, ISDB, SCTE and IPTV streams. It includes navigation for gallery, stream sources, support, FAQ, downloads and a forum. The body text explicitly states that original author Rod Hewitt passed away in March 2025 and that the project continues as free software with only the Professional edition hosted here and on GitHub.

Infrastructure

The domain resolves to IP 199.188.201.73 with an abuse score of 0/100 and zero abuse reports. SSL is valid and issued by Sectigo Limited. One redirect hop occurs with no cross-domain or homoglyph activity. External resources load from tsreader.com, github.com, facebook.com and paypal.com, consistent with a legitimate open-source project page.

Domain History

WHOIS data was unavailable. The evidence package states this is the successor domain after the original coolstf.com site closed following the developer's death. The project is maintained by a long-time friend with family consent and the source code has moved to a public GitHub repository.

Web Reputation

Zero scam reports or complaints were located. Two positive mentions appear on VideoHelp and Satellites Community forums confirming the site as the official continuation of the project. Business registration searches returned no formal company record, which matches the description of a memorial project run by friends and family rather than a commercial entity.

What this means for you

The site shows consistent signals of a legitimate technical project continuation. Download links point to the expected GitHub repository and the page carries no deceptive patterns or aggressive monetization tactics.

AI Recommendation
The site appears safe for downloading the TSReader software. Verify any downloads against the linked GitHub repository before installation.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for tsreader.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • The domain tsreader.co.uk is the new official home for TSReader, a widely used MPEG-2 Transport Stream Analyzer.
  • The original developer, Rod Hewitt (KG6TTD), passed away in March 2025, leading to the closure of the previous site (coolstf.com).
  • The software is now released as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the GPL v3 license.
  • The project is maintained by a long-time friend of the developer with the consent of his son, Elliott.
  • Source code for the project has been migrated to a public GitHub repository (github.com/TSReader).
  • The Professional version, previously a paid product, is now offered for free on this domain.
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • VideoHelpopen

    "Rod's son Elliott was approached and kindly agreed that we should pick up the project and bring it back to life. To that end, tsreader.co.uk has been registered and an updated website published."

  • Satellites Communityopen

    "It seems that TSReader Pro has been made free and can be legally downloaded here: https://tsreader.co.uk/ Rod Hewitt... passed away March 2025... His work will be available for download for free."

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found no scam reports or complaints about tsreader.co.uk. Two independent technical forums (VideoHelp and Satellites Community) explicitly endorse the site as the official continuation of the TSReader project following the original developer's death. The evidence describes the domain as a memorial project maintained by friends and family with the consent of Rod Hewitt's son Elliott.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious57Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

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.

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerSectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
ExpiresOct 30, 2026 (108d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingNamecheap, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverLiteSpeed
Platform / CMSRapidWeaver

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://tsreader.co.uk/
  • 2200https://tsreader.co.uk/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPNamecheap, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

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 tsreader.co.uk and not a lookalike like t-sreader.co.uk.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·tsreader.co.uk
SAFE

This is the official successor site for TSReader, a legitimate MPEG-2 transport stream analysis tool. The original developer passed away in March 2025 and the project moved here with family approval. No scam indicators appear in the scan or research.

The site appears safe for downloading the TSReader software. Verify any downloads against the linked GitHub repository before installation.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on tsreader.co.uk, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • tsreader.co.uk passed our automated checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from tsreader.co.uk), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from tsreader.co.uk is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report tsreader.co.uk as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — tsreader.co.uk is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • Yes — tsreader.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 108 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • tsreader.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Namecheap, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about tsreader.co.uk has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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