No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is vmware.com legit or a scam?
Official VMware by Broadcom enterprise cloud site with 28-year domain history and no security flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays the exact title and description of the legitimate VMware by Broadcom corporate site. The domain is over 28 years old with confirmed active US business registration matching VMware LLC. All antivirus engines returned clean results and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. While independent review aggregator and Reddit contain complaints about support and licensing changes after the Broadcom acquisition, these are service issues rather than signs of fraud. No clone indicators or scam-family matches were detected.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for vmware.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age exceeds 28 years (10346 days as provided).
- Page title and description match official VMware by Broadcom enterprise cloud computing site.
- SEC EDGAR and LEI records confirm VMware LLC as active US entity in Palo Alto, CA.
- Trustpilot reviews for vmware.com average 2.5/5 with multiple complaints about post-Broadcom support and licensing changes.
- Reddit threads (r/vmware, r/sysadmin) contain numerous user complaints about Broadcom acquisition impacts on pricing, support, and perpetual licenses.
- Scamadviser explicitly states vmware.com is 'legit and safe'.
- No detected typosquats or clone indicators for the exact domain vmware.com; historical discussions of phishing emails impersonating @vmware.com addresses.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think vmware.com is legit and safe for consumers to access."
- Trustpilotopen
"v8 onwards with Web Interface makes it easier."
VMware LLC, CIK 0001124610, business address 3401 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94304; SEC EDGAR filings and LEI 549300BUDHS3LRWBE814 confirm entity.
Our research found one review site explicitly stating vmware.com is legitimate and safe. independent review aggregator reviews average low due to complaints about support and licensing after the Broadcom acquisition. Reddit discussions in tech communities echo similar service complaints but confirm the site belongs to the real company. Business records verify VMware LLC as an active registered entity in California.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://vmware.com/
- 2200https://www.vmware.com/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 vmware.com and not a lookalike like v-mware.com.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 vmware.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- vmware.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. vmware.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 294 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- vmware.com is 28.3 years old, registered on 1/30/1998 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report vmware.com as clean.
- No. vmware.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vmware.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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