No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is utexas.edu legit or a scam?
Official University of Texas at Austin site with clean security scans and verified university registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content, title, and description match the official University of Texas at Austin branding exactly. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags while the hosting IP shows only minimal abuse reports. Evidence confirms active registration as a public university in the United States with no scam reports or complaints found. The domain is used for legitimate services including admissions, research, and security pages. Visual and content analysis align with an established educational institution rather than any fraudulent operation.
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
Screenshot shows a standard 403 Forbidden error page from Varnish cache server with no scam indicators or site content visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for utexas.edu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- utexas.edu is the official website of The University of Texas at Austin (page title and description match exactly).
- University operates security.utexas.edu with dedicated pages for reporting phishing, spam, and fraud (e.g., postmaster-abuse@utexas.edu).
- WHOIS/ARIN records list owner as The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
- No scam or fraud reports targeting or involving utexas.edu as perpetrator; search results primarily show university's own anti-scam resources and student email discussions.
- Domain used for official university services including admissions, research, and subdomains like security.utexas.edu.
- Wikipedia and official site confirm utexas.edu as the primary domain for the public research university founded in Texas.
Public university (The University of Texas at Austin) in Texas
Our research confirmed utexas.edu as the official domain for The University of Texas at Austin with active business registration as a public university. No scam reports or complaints were found across web sources. The site matches official branding and is used for university services including admissions and research.
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
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://utexas.edu/
- 2200https://www.utexas.edu/cross-domain
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 utexas.edu and not a lookalike like u-texas.edu.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.
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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 utexas.edu. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- utexas.edu passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. utexas.edu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 34 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report utexas.edu as clean.
- No. utexas.edu is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- utexas.edu resolves to an IP operated by Pantheon 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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