Is utopia.com.au safe?
http://utopia.com.au/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not available: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
Established Australian record store with standard e-commerce checkout
Utopia.com.au is the online shop for Utopia Records, a physical record store operating in Sydney since 1978. The site sells music, vinyl, CDs, and merchandise through a standard Shopify checkout. Independent reviews confirm the store's long-standing presence and reputation.
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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 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorNo operator postal address visible on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsOwn-domain email and local phone number listed.
- SupportsIndependent reviews confirm decades of operation as a physical Sydney record store.
- SupportsLinks to 8 social profiles.
- SupportsValid TLS, no Safe Browsing warnings, clean antivirus results.
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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Utopia.com.au is the online shop for Utopia Records, a physical record store operating in Sydney since 1978. The site sells music, vinyl, CDs, and merchandise through a standard Shopify checkout. Independent reviews confirm the store's long-standing presence and reputation.
Evidence supporting legitimacy
The site lists contact details on its own domain (contact@utopia.com.au) and a local Sydney phone number ((02) 9571 6662).
Independent reviews describe Utopia Records as a long-established physical store in Sydney with decades of operation and a focus on heavy metal and hard rock music.
The site uses Shopify for its e-commerce platform and presents standard product categories, pre-order options, and a visible shopping cart.
Technical and security findings
The browser threat feed returned no threat warnings, the TLS certificate is valid, and the multi-engine malware scan reports zero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines.
No operator postal address appears on the captured page, though the About section text references a physical location.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. 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 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 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 - 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
- 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 - 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 - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiEntertainment
- BitDefendereducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerentertainment
- Googleretail
- Sophosonline shopping
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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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
Utopia Records | #1 Record Store Sydney
- Meta description
Utopia Records is Australia’s largest heavy metal and hard rock specialty independent record store. The shop has existed since 1978 supplying Sydney and Australia with all things metal, hard rock, punk, alternative and anything in between.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Privacy policy/pages/privacy-policyRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/returns-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-deliveryRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Utopia Records | #1 Record Store Sydney
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 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
- 01Own-domain email and local phone number listed.
- 02Links to 8 social profiles.
- 03Independent reviews confirm decades of operation as a physical Sydney record store.
Web research findings
Independent findings for utopia.com.au, 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.
- Exa.aiopen
"Absolutely awesome shop to visit if you love your metal"
- OceaniaBizopen
"I have been supporting Utopia since the mid 1980’s when they started out at Martin Place and after a few changes of locations the current store at ... ’s, LP’s, t-shirts, clothing accessories and too many other items to mention."
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.
- Domainutopia.com.au
- Redirects toutopia.com.au
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesclarity.ms · googletagmanager.com
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 (contact@utopia.com.au).
- Phone number listed ((02) 9571 6662).
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for utopia.com.au.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Microsoft Clarity
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Pixel
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Adobe Fonts
- cdnjs
- jQuery CDN
- jsDelivr
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
- Afterpay
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://utopia.com.au/
- 2200https://utopia.com.au/
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
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 Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 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
Established Australian record store with standard e-commerce checkout
Utopia.com.au is the online shop for Utopia Records, a physical record store operating in Sydney since 1978. The site sells music, vinyl, CDs, and merchandise through a standard Shopify checkout. Independent reviews confirm the store's long-standing presence and reputation.
09 · Community
Community
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