This is a sad loss to the Windows community, as it was often *the* best place to look for solutions to specific malware problems.

If there's any way of keeping the forums available, even as view-only, it would be a great help :-}

It's a crying shame that Microsoft couldn't admit the failings in the security of their products and fund the website themselves - volunteers are free, hosting etc. isn't.

finally the credit crunch / recession / [insert money losing buzzword here] has affected something I actually care about

"Donations to the service made by cheque can't easily be refunded and will be passed onto the Internet Storm Centre" - Don't you mean isc.org not isc.sans.org??

This is very sad. This isn't because of the economy failing. This is because CastleCops doesn't have the means to find an chief organizer.

Could not some large computer or software company / consortium donate an executive to organize and administer CastleCops?

This would reduce costs to all IT industries by helping combat the malware that drives up development, maintenance and support costs of software makers.

(@AC: ISC is run by SANS.)

As an ex-helper on Castle Cops, it is sad to see it go. I worked with some good people on there, and we were able to provide a great deal of help to people, for free.

For those people who are looking for an alternative, there is a big list of "approved" alternative websites here - http://asap.maddoktor2.com/

But Microsoft couldn't fund that sort of thing. It would be tantamount to admitting their box of crabs was worthless without all the freebie support it was getting from them.

I remember a remark by the owner of Pepisoft in his plea for funding, that Misery scoff donated an whole OS copy to them once.

Fecking generous ? wat's the word?

Bookmarked and stumbled :-)

Very sad news about CC, but We have one also excellent help at:

SCforum.info - Security CENTRAL Forum

http://www.SCforum.info