Solve : CastleCops has shut down for good?

1.	Solve : CastleCops has shut down for good?
Answer» http://www.castlecops.com/ The constant attacks on the site coupled with funding issues has finally become too much apparently. Remember though that all the databases were copied/moved to System Lookup some time ago, so the resources are still available. Quote Greetings Folks, You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to INVESTIGATE online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet a safer place. Unfortunately, all things come to an end. Keep up the good fight folks, for the spirit of this community lies within each of us. We are empowered to improve the safety and security of the Internet in our own way. Let us feel blessed for the impact we made and the relationships created. This is a sad day INDEED...They put up a good fight. Maybe like the old Tom Coyote forums they will return under a new name one day. I just think that it's disgusting that their enemies succeeded in getting it to this point...That's the first thing I thought too. They had some pretty big server/funding issues also. Hopefully that was the biggest reason and not the bad guys. The Wiki pages are still there though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastleCopsJust found a few more comments. Looks like part of the reason is it just simply got too big. Paul and Robin, the site owners, did not have the time or the resources to keep the site up. The site had become so slow it was becoming very hard to look anything up or post there. a) MALWARE authors DOS attacks against it b) Server costs skyrocket c) Revenue/donations can't cover the costs Such a shame this happened, but sounds like it was really unavoidable. At least the resources are still online though.Although the resources are available, this is still sad. CastleCops was a very LARGE part of my training and I hate to see it go.A bit more specific information from a few people closely associated with the Castle Cops web site. sjb007;96805Quote From what I know Castlecops was closed down due to a couple of factors. It had nothing to do with the DDOS attacks which had been the problem of prior slowdowns - that problem had been overcome, other slowdowns came from a faulty card which needed replacing in one of the servers (which was completed). From what I know the main contributing factors were: Paul getting a job with Microsoft which also meant them relocating to Redmond, also Robin has her hands tied with the ever growing family which has just recently grown by one more! They had tried to sell the site but from what I was led to belive they hit problem along the way. Its a shame castlecops has dissapeared, it was a stopping place for many of the top malware experts, it was also where I was trained to fight malware and where got the bug for killing malware. Its a shame to see it go. TonyKlein;420874 Quote from: Quote from: Osc;420856 SystemLookup is a great site - much faster than CC ever was and as long as they keep those lists updated, we're all the better off. You needn't worry about that: the Lists are being updated throughout the day by an editing team currently consisting of the following members of the anti-malware community: Marckie Metallica miekiemoes nasdaq random/random Rorschach112 TonyKlein Vino Rosso Zupe Happy Holidays and all the best for 2009 to everyone at Help2Go!

Answer» http://www.castlecops.com/

The constant attacks on the site coupled with funding issues has finally become too much apparently. Remember though that all the databases were copied/moved to System Lookup some time ago, so the resources are still available.

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Greetings Folks,

You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to INVESTIGATE online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet a safer place. Unfortunately, all things come to an end. Keep up the good fight folks, for the spirit of this community lies within each of us. We are empowered to improve the safety and security of the Internet in our own way. Let us feel blessed for the impact we made and the relationships created.

This is a sad day INDEED...They put up a good fight. Maybe like the old Tom Coyote forums they will return under a new name one day. I just think that it's disgusting that their enemies succeeded in getting it to this point...That's the first thing I thought too. They had some pretty big server/funding issues also. Hopefully that was the biggest reason and not the bad guys.

The Wiki pages are still there though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastleCopsJust found a few more comments. Looks like part of the reason is it just simply got too big.

Paul and Robin, the site owners, did not have the time or the resources to keep the site up. The site had become so slow it was becoming very hard to look anything up or post there.

a) MALWARE authors DOS attacks against it
b) Server costs skyrocket
c) Revenue/donations can't cover the costs

Such a shame this happened, but sounds like it was really unavoidable.
At least the resources are still online though.Although the resources are available, this is still sad. CastleCops was a very LARGE part of my training and I hate to see it go.A bit more specific information from a few people closely associated with the Castle Cops web site.

sjb007;96805Quote

From what I know Castlecops was closed down due to a couple of factors. It had nothing to do with the DDOS attacks which had been the problem of prior slowdowns - that problem had been overcome, other slowdowns came from a faulty card which needed replacing in one of the servers (which was completed). From what I know the main contributing factors were: Paul getting a job with Microsoft which also meant them relocating to Redmond, also Robin has her hands tied with the ever growing family which has just recently grown by one more! They had tried to sell the site but from what I was led to belive they hit problem along the way. Its a shame castlecops has dissapeared, it was a stopping place for many of the top malware experts, it was also where I was trained to fight malware and where got the bug for killing malware. Its a shame to see it go.

TonyKlein;420874
Quote from:

Quote from:
Osc;420856 SystemLookup is a great site - much faster than CC ever was and as long as they keep those lists updated, we're all the better off.

You needn't worry about that: the Lists are being updated throughout the day by an editing team currently consisting of the following members of the anti-malware community:

Marckie
Metallica
miekiemoes
nasdaq
random/random
Rorschach112
TonyKlein
Vino Rosso
Zupe

Happy Holidays and all the best for 2009 to everyone at Help2Go!

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