A sad end

Frequently suffering Denial Of Service attacks because of the good work they did fighting online crime, CastleCops is no more.

http://www.castlecops.com/

Castle Cops was a great site and I think Returnil had a support thread over there? :unsure:

This is a bad trend as hpHost forum suffered a similar attack:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7289 <== Membership required to see this I believe

Wow, I can't believe that they are gone.....I used to frequent there as a lurker quite often....that's really too bad..

Wow, some kind of christmas surprise?

Frequently suffering Denial Of Service attacks because of the good work they did fighting online crime, CastleCops is no more.

It wasn't so much because of that that, but (at least on the surface) because Paul started working for Microsoft, Robin and Paul had their 3rd child and reportedly no third party showed up willing to run the site up to the standards and conditions asked for.

Regrettable, but many of us did kind of see it coming... :(

I'm just happy that we found a new home for the databases before the site went 'pouf!' with little or no notice.

All in all I think all this could have been handled a whole lot better! :rolleyes:

I'm just happy that we found a new home

Looks good, and I've bookmarked it. :) Thanks for sharing the link! ;)

Looks good, and I've bookmarked it. :) Thanks for sharing the link! ;)

You're very welcome, Andavari. :)

It was Javacool who, last August, came forward with his generous offer to host the Lists, and they're being updated throughout the day

In addition to myself, the editing team currently includes the following members of the anti-malware community:

miekiemoes

Metallica

random/random

nasdaq

Marckie

Zupe

Vino Rosso

Rorschach112

Thanks for posting that info Tony, I'm sure many folk will be glad of it.

np, you're very welcome, Hazel :)

And another thanks from me Tony, and a Merry Christmas. (Just)

Well that blows!

I know nothing about what goes on behind the scenes.....lol

You're very welcome, DennisD. Happy Holidays to everyone. :)