Safety

[greenporing]

Hey. I've had a phpbb2 for a while, and I'm considering to move to vbulletin for security reasons. I've had my phpbb2 hacked/defaced several times, and I don't want to have to deal with that crap anymore. It doesn't even feel like doing all their updates helps at all, so it's discouraging.

So my question is: is vbulletin completely safe or does it also suffer from this kind of things?

Thanks

[Steve Machol]

We take security very seriously and do the best we can to ensure that vBulletin has no security holes. And when we become aware of a security issue we generally provide patches and updates within 24 hours of confirming a problem.

Unfortunately security issues are a fact of life with online software. While we work hard to avoid and eliminate security issues, we cannot guarantee that our software is completely free from bugs or security issues.

However as our record shows, we aggressively track and fix any security issues as soon as they become known to us.

[greenporing]

Sound good. Are there mail notifications when you guys realease an update or patches?

[Steve Machol]

Yes, emails go to licensed customers. You can also subscribe to the Announcements forum.