CastleCops terminates it services and shut down on Tuesday 23 December, 2008. As written by a contributor of Slashdot.org, Fortran writes:
"Volunteer-powered anti-malware site CastleCops appears to have closed shop. As of Tuesday, December 23, the CastleCops home page notes: 'You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. . . . Unfortunately, all things come to an end.' It was reported back in June that Paul Laudanski, founder of CastleCops and its parent Computer Cops LLC, was taking a full-time job with Microsoft and was 'looking for new management' for CastleCops. The site has also long had problems with funding and with [2]hostile action from spammers. The actual shutdown seems to have taken the security community by surprise; as late as Tuesday evening Brian Krebs was still recommending CastleCops on his Security Fix blog."
We here at Spacequad were surprised to hear that they had decided to pull the plug and turn it off or not even sell the site to someone that would be interested in running it.
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