[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by ShawneyJ

if you ask me, vb3 most likely could get hacked at anytime, depends on if the hackers feel like attacking your site, vb4 the same.

"Likely could get hacked" is relative - it's true of any platform. But v3 is inherently more secure than v4. v4 isn't getting "hacked" because it's prevalent out there, it's happening because it's relatively easy to do. Because of all the exploits it has, and ones it has that haven't been found yet. Most of what you see happening to v4 isn't much more than script kiddie stuff, done more for "street cred" than anything else. These script kiddies wouldn't waste any time at all with v3 because it would require too much work on their part. And they know it.

But if a true, hard core black hat HACKER really wanted to, there's little question that he could "hack" a v3 installation. But your true, hard core black hat hacker has way too many other bigger fish to fry than a message board installation.

If you have a nice 3.x site, it's 3.8.x fully patched and it works fine then no need to upgrade to 4 or 5.

^^ I have been saying this incessantly as well. There is no compelling reason to go to 4 or 5.

And besides - if your members like your platform why do you want to upset them?