Originally Posted by Hotrocket

EVERY type of forum software in its "out of the box" form is susceptible to exploits..people act like a Vbulletin board has never been hacked or spammed..and thats just not the case.

I run several forums and have used or do use most of the top 5 forum software at one time or another..they all have the ability to be exploited in some way or another..you HAVE to keep them updated when they offer a patch..plain and simple...same goes for Vbulletin or phpBB.

Some have advantages/features/mods that others don't..just depends on what you need.

It is interesting that the largest board on the net runs phpBB...take a look at these numbers taken 5 mins ago:

Who is Online? - 65331 users. (57972 visible, 4175 hidden, 3184 guests).

**** has 1,010,267,380 articles posted with 7,031,227 registered users.

Most users ever online was 86,738 on Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:00 pm

interesting huh?...lol I guess phpBB has something going for it