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What happened to the PC security site "PC Flank"?

It's not just you! »pcflank.com looks down from here.

reply to daveinpoway
No joy here. 100% packet loss as well.

reply to daveinpoway
It's been down for a couple of months now - possibly more.

Wasn't Randy Bell a moderator on the PCFlank forums? What happened to him? He hasn't been on here for years. Such a knowledgable person.

From his profile:

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Last seen: 2004-09-30 08:30:16

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I think Randy used to hang out at Wilders or Castle Cops after leaving here, possibly some of the vendor specific websites.

But I must admit I haven't run across him myself in years.

Name Game (if he's still about) is another who might know where to find Randy.
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Regards,
Joseph V. Morris

reply to daveinpoway

reply to jvmorris

Okay, that's a bit of a memory jogger. Think it must have been Castle Cops. Didn't they host a Norton forum for a bit? Still, there was somewhere else he used to hang about, I just can't recall where.

I think Randy and I spent most of our time arguing about NIS and NPF (with varying degrees of civility) back in the old days, but I did used to hear from him thereafter.
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Regards,
Joseph V. Morris

reply to daveinpoway
Randy also used to hang out at the TrojanHunter forum: »www.misec.net/forum/ I don't know whether he's still there because I haven't visited this forum for many years.

EDIT: I would really like to know how Randy is doing these days. Does anybody know?

reply to Pjr
Since I used one of their security scanners a couple of weeks ago, the site can't have been down for months.

They certainly could have had a problem a few months ago, fixed it for awhile and then went down again.

As to what the present problem is, I guess they could have a hardware failure, they could be down because of a Denial-of-Service attack, or ??? Checking on Google, I haven't seen anything mentioned regarding what is presently happening.

reply to daveinpoway
It seems it was up on the 9th of this month. »209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:10···ank.com/ That link is in Googles cache. »www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3···bs=qdr:y

From the link:

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Make backup copies of system files and store them in a safe place away from the computer.

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reply to Buddel

reply to daveinpoway
The last time I saw Randy Bell's name, was at Wilders' Update Alerts forum. But that was at least 3 or 4 years ago. He did get into some heated discussions here on Norton products, and Symantec in general. I hope he's ok. He was a very nice guy. Very helpful.

Hey Randy, if you're still lurking around here, stop to say a quick hello.

reply to daveinpoway
I got this from NIS blocking that website:
»safeweb.norton.com/report/show?u···lank.com

-amy-

reply to Graystoke

said by Graystoke:

The last time I saw Randy Bell's name, was at Wilders' Update Alerts forum. But that was at least 3 or 4 years ago. He did get into some heated discussions here on Norton products, and Symantec in general. I hope he's ok. He was a very nice guy. Very helpful.

Hey Randy, if you're still lurking around here, stop to say a quick hello.

reply to jvmorris

Okay, based on that, I would say check with the senior mods at those two forums (preferably privately) and try to locate him.

Well, let me explain why I say do it that way. Over the last decade, I've seen a number of people 'disappear' and some have had medical problems that they don't care to share will the world at large. (And some of them were very dear to me.) If that's the problem here (and I hope it isn't), one of these senior mods is likely to be able to give you some insight and let you know if they'd still like to keep in touch.

I honestly don't know if this is true in Randy's case, but I would suggest you respect his right to privacy if that's what he wishes. Probably best to take these queries offline now, until you can get some more information.
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Regards,
Joseph V. Morris

reply to daveinpoway