Free forum engine with good anti-attack mechanisms

Posted by macias on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by macias
Published on 2011-02-10T12:18:29Z Indexed on 2011/02/10 15:33 UTC
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I am looking for forum engine (for discussions) with good attack countermeasures built in. Windows (preferrably) or Linux. Free (as beer).

I think about registration flooding and blocking user accounts attacks.

For registration, such engine should have at least:

  • captcha
  • blocking mulitple registrations from the same IP
  • providing login (for logging in) and user name (for displaying the author of the posts)

For logging in:

  • no blocking on multiple tries -- instead after X try sending via mail a token, the third piece needed for next login -- without it logging in will be impossible (it would be similar to activation process)

The engine should be designed with two ideas in mind:

  • protecting engine against attacks
  • 0 penalty for decent users

Thank you in advance for your help and recommendations.

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