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User’s Verification to Prevent Malicious Access in Web-based Forums

by Mahdi Taheri Tabar, Imran Ghani, Mohd Shafie Abd Latiff
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

@article{ 10.5120/10493-5250,
author = { Mahdi Taheri Tabar, Imran Ghani, Mohd Shafie Abd Latiff },
title = { User’s Verification to Prevent Malicious Access in Web-based Forums },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2013 },
volume = { 63 },
number = { 9 },
month = { February },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 11-16 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume63/number9/10493-5250/ },
doi = { 10.5120/10493-5250 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Imran Ghani
%A Mohd Shafie Abd Latiff
%T User’s Verification to Prevent Malicious Access in Web-based Forums
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 63
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%P 11-16
%D 2013
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

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.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Identity theft verification service identity management malicious users forums