~ Top 5 Security Features To Have~
 

<font face="Book Antiqua">I'm about to launch my forum and wanted to know what would be the top 5 security features to have in my forum to protect it from hackers and spammers? Now I know that it can't fully be 100% secure or spam free at times but I wanted to to make sure that I do my best so that others would be willing to become a member.

Any help on this would be appreciated and all suggestions would be great. Thank you for your answers and your time.

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A great start is here:

http://dev.geekpoint.net/articles/vb...curity-tips-i/

Secondly, I would advise, although it may not be practical for you that if you're to give admin access to anyone that you've talked with them via phone/skype some and know them as best as you can.

And don't get phished.

<font face="Book Antiqua">Joshskeety,

Thank you for your response on this topic. That was some great information for me to read over and make the changes to my forum, I wouldn't of known some of those to change. Much appreciated.</font>

I know I was getting Spammers every day trying to sell they're cheap mexican viagra pills and what not. I installed cyb's advanced registration hack where you have to answer the question ex. 5+4=?. For whatever reason that didn't work, then I found out that I hadn't turned the hack on, now it works perfectly haven't had a spammer since.

The best security feature you can have is a smart administrator.

Yes that!
Enhanced Image Verification Mod
reCAPTCHA
Require Email Verification
Moderate User Registrations

Along with the info above per http://dev.geekpoint.net/articles/vb...curity-tips-i/ (Thanks joshskeety) you should also rename your config file and move it ;) use the search here for rename config.

chmod as the link says and also htaccess protect all your folder with a redirect utilizing an index.html so all folders have an idex file AND a redirect back to your forums ;).

Also, the less mods the less likely to get hacked tbo but that depends on several factors. No matter what you move and or rename always.. ALWAYS leave a fake/dummy copy in place so they waste all their time on a useless admin or modcp lol and if you renamed and moved the config leave a dummy one up with fake yet real looking info :p.

Mike