International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 63 - Number 9 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Mahdi Taheri Tabar, Imran Ghani, Mohd Shafie Abd Latiff |
10.5120/10493-5250 |
Mahdi Taheri Tabar, Imran Ghani, Mohd Shafie Abd Latiff . User’s Verification to Prevent Malicious Access in Web-based Forums. International Journal of Computer Applications. 63, 9 ( February 2013), 11-16. DOI=10.5120/10493-5250
This paper aims to address the issue of malicious accounts that are created and used to imitate real users in web-based forums. In fact, form bots are used to create fake users on forums for several purposes. As a result hundreds of fake users start appearing in the forums and normally placing spam URLs. For forum administrators/managers/moderators, it is a frustrating job to keep members' list clean. In order to overcome this issue, a novel approach is proposed that would be useful in order to prevent malicious users' access and decrease rate of deception in web-based forums. We present a comparison between the proposed approach and IDology approach. The results illustrate that our proposed approach addresses the issue more efficiently as compared with IDology approach.