PHPbb attack?

[hofmax]

First of all my apologies if this topic has already come up but I searched for FuntKlakow and nothing was found.

There has been a large scale attack on phpbb forums by a bot called FuntKlakow
which has registered in thousands of forums including mine. Most commentators assume that it´s just a spambot. However, I am curious what the bluehost stance is on this issue?
If any of the administrators want to take a look at my forum I´ll pm you my url.

Please contact me sooner rather than later as I am growing a bit itchy about this issue and am planning to deinstall my forum, as it doesn´t have any users, and switch to SMF.

Regards

Max

[AncientStorm]

if you do decide to switch to SMF - there are many of us who can help if you need it

[hofmax]

Thanks for the offer AncientStorm. It´s good to know that there is a strong SMF community at bluehost. It looks as if SMF is more resistant to attacks than PHPbb.

[JoeP]

For other reasons I switched from PhPBB to SMF (the SSI functionality is really cool). The switch was very easy. If you are thinking about it, poke around the SMF site and learn about it. They have some step by step instructions for converting.
joe:)

[areidmtm]

WOW, I like SMF! It looks like vBulletin, but FREE!! I'll be switching as well

[AncientStorm]

The support for SMF is incredibel as well - any thread that I have posted requesting information has been replied to within a couple of hours at most