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What Forum Software should I use?

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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PHPBB has always been good enough for me. You can implement Captcha and you can configure everything else - though the Captcha has been under ridicule.

All of the other PHP-based forums have serious security vulnerabilities that I don't think you'd want.

For every other feature you might want to know

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: If you are familiar with wordpress, I have implemented sites with profiles using regi-plus-redux plugin. It allows you to make as many custom fields to your sign up page as you want as

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