Multiple Account Detection & Prevention

[mark370]

Excellant work Kiros72 many thank's for the update, and like many other's have said this mod has proved itself to be invaluable to our forum's to keep the trouble-maker's away so your update comes very welcome :)

ps. thank's MindStar

[711]

This mod looks like a very nice alternative to Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector) and Multiple Account Registration prevention add-on.

I would love to start using this mod, however all of my forums make extensive use vBGallery.


- PhotoPost vBGallery users: The registration handling appears to not work properly when PhotoPost vBGallery is enabled.

Any chance on getting those conflicts resolved?

Thanks

[Kiros72]

This mod looks like a very nice alternative to Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector) and Multiple Account Registration prevention add-on.

I would love to start using this mod, however all of my forums make extensive use vBGallery.



Any chance on getting those conflicts resolved?

Thanks

Right now, I'm working on a project for someone and it might take me several days. After I'm done, I can look into the coding of vBGallery to see if anything can be resolved.

However, if you just want to prevent multiple registrants by disabling their registration, then that will still work. The issue arises in the register_addmember_complete hook, so moving multiple registrants to a Usergroup won't work correctly.

[Alfa1]

I am not getting any reports.
I am also not getting any moderated members.

What are your reporting settings? What about your ignore settings?
I have not uninstalled the AE detector, but disabled it in the product manager. Is this a problem?

Settings:
Enable multiple account login detection? yes
Registration prevention: Move to Usergroup, Except Banned Users
Silent Mode: Yes
Ignore Child Accounts: yes
Ignored Users: 1
Ignored Usergroups: 5,6 (staff)
Ignored ISPs: aol.com
Prevention Usergroup: 4
IP Address Prevention: yes
Extended IP Address Prevention: yes
IP Address Time Inclusion: 90
Banned Account Check: yes
Primary Banned Usergroup: 8
Cookie Expiration: 700
Cookie Refreshing: yes
Cookie Name: idstack
Cookie Reset: no

Multiple Account Reporter: 7849
Report by Private Message: no
Report by New Thread: yes
Forum to Post New Threads: 146
Verbose Mode: yes
BB Code: LIST: yes
BB Code: URL: yes
BB Code: CODE: yes

Do you need anything else?

[BlueNinjaGo]

I am also not getting any moderated members.

Silent Mode: Yes


If you have silent mode on, you will only get notified (thread or PM).... You won't get any moderated members.


Silent mode = reporting only.

[Alfa1]

I am not getting threads either.

[Megatr0n]

Kiros72,

I had to uninstall your hack because I kept getting this error when trying to login after installing:

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/smiggy/public_html/forums/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/smiggy/public_html/forums/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

[Kiros72]

I am also not getting any moderated members.


I have not uninstalled the AE detector, but disabled it in the product manager. Is this a problem?

Settings:
Enable multiple account login detection? yes
Registration prevention: Move to Usergroup, Except Banned Users
Silent Mode: Yes
Ignore Child Accounts: yes
Ignored Users: 1
Ignored Usergroups: 5,6 (staff)
Ignored ISPs: aol.com
Prevention Usergroup: 4
IP Address Prevention: yes
Extended IP Address Prevention: yes
IP Address Time Inclusion: 90
Banned Account Check: yes
Primary Banned Usergroup: 8
Cookie Expiration: 700
Cookie Refreshing: yes
Cookie Name: idstack
Cookie Reset: no

Multiple Account Reporter: 7849
Report by Private Message: no
Report by New Thread: yes
Forum to Post New Threads: 146
Verbose Mode: yes
BB Code: LIST: yes
BB Code: URL: yes
BB Code: CODE: yes

Do you need anything else?

My modification should, in theory, work fine if MPDev's AE Detector is disabled; however, you may want to uninstall it if nothing is working out. There are a few things that you must make sure of. Is the reporter setup with the correct ID (7849)? Does the forum (146) exist and does it allow the reporter to post in it? If you're going to be testing it, you're going to want to remove ALL Ignored Users and Ignored Usergroups. Also, please make sure that your Cookie Name is set to IDstack instead of idstack (notice the capitalization). I doubt that this would be effecting it, but I'm unaware if browsers would make an issue about this or not.

Please list all of the modifications that you currently have installed.

One more thing, enabled reporting via private messages and set the recipients correctly. The PM reporting uses less resources and is more fool-proof than reports posted by thread.

Kiros72,

I had to uninstall your hack because I kept getting this error when trying to login after installing:

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/smiggy/public_html/forums/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/smiggy/public_html/forums/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Looks like you need to upload the files in the correct directory. The /madp/ folder and all of the files within it should have been uploaded to your forum root.

[Megatr0n]

Oh right.

[Alfa1]

My modification should, in theory, work fine if MPDev's AE Detector is disabled; however, you may want to uninstall it if nothing is working out. There are a few things that you must make sure of. Is the reporter setup with the correct ID (7849)? Does the forum (146) exist and does it allow the reporter to post in it? If you're going to be testing it, you're going to want to remove ALL Ignored Users and Ignored Usergroups. Also, please make sure that your Cookie Name is set to IDstack instead of idstack (notice the capitalization). I doubt that this would be effecting it, but I'm unaware if browsers would make an issue about this or not.

Please list all of the modifications that you currently have installed.

One more thing, enabled reporting via private messages and set the recipients correctly. The PM reporting uses less resources and is more fool-proof than reports posted by thread.
I have followed your suggestions and will await to see if any reports by PM or thread appear. If not, then I will send you my list of installed modifications.

[Kiros72]

I have followed your suggestions and will await to see if any reports by PM or thread appear. If not, then I will send you my list of installed modifications.

Sounds good. Hope it starts working for you!

[Alfa1]

Great! It's working. Thank you!!!
I do suspect that it was due to having AE detector installed.

[Kiros72]

Great! It's working. Thank you!!!
I do suspect that it was due to having AE detector installed.

Alrighty, thanks for the update ;)

Cheers!

[kursed]

I've just installed this hack and am not using any iteration of other hacks like it. But it is not working for me. I've set it to reporting mode only (silent), and tried logging in through a dummy account. I was not notified about it, by a private message, on my administrator user-id.

P.S.
I've uploaded the 'files' of this hack directly to the root of my forum folder.

Kindly let me know if I'm doing anything wrong in here.

[Kiros72]

I've just installed this hack and am not using any iteration of other hacks like it. But it is not working for me. I've set it to reporting mode only (silent), and tried logging in through a dummy account. I was not notified about it, by a private message, on my administrator user-id.

P.S.
I've uploaded the 'files' of this hack directly to the root of my forum folder.

Kindly let me know if I'm doing anything wrong in here.

This is probably due to your administrative account being ignored. Go in and remove the Ignored Users and Ignored Usergroups.

Try this and let me know how it works.

[kursed]

I've done that already. I again tried logging in (using Chrome as a browser), but it didn't work. Then I tried using the same dummy account via Firefox, this time, it did generate a report to me, as it should have.

But then again, when I just tried signing in using that dummy account, using Firefox, it didn't work. No report was generated.

[BlueNinjaGo]

Did you enable IP checks too?

If you're only basing it off cookies, and use a different browser, then it's less likely to catch the cookies.

[kursed]

Nope, I did not enable IP checks. But in spite of my trying to log in/off using the dummy account, in Chrome, it didn't point the duplicity out. And neither is it working in Firefox now.

I'm going to turn IP check on, and see if it works any better.

[kursed]

Nope, even the IP check doesn't work. It doesn't alert me of my use of a dummy account. It happened just once, and not after that.

[kursed]

Okay. So here is what I did. I cleared up my cookies in Chrome, and this time it did work. Does it mean that I need to 'reset' the cookie for multiple login detection?

[BlueNinjaGo]

You may...

also, i'd recommend setting up everything the way you want it to be (having your user ID ignored, usergroups ignored, and what not) and then having a trusted member create an alt. Don't be specific. Tell him/her to please make a new test account. Then just delete the test account later.

It helps give you a real idea...

Also, with IP address checks, you might need to extend the date it checks... i switched it from 90 to 180 to see and 2 reports popped up...

[Kiros72]

Hmm, I think I see what's going on here. And if it's what I'm thinking, then you won't need a cookie reset.

Since the IP checks only work for the registration prevention, you won't benefit from it while testing logins. But what I think happened may have been caused by the use of different browsers. Each browser has its own cookie-handling system and it's own set of cookies. Now let me explain what probably happened.

If you had your Usergroup or user account added to the ignored list, and you tried to login, then it wouldn't have caught you. It would still set the cookie and make sure that it knows what accounts you have logged into, but again, it would not have thrown a red flag. Even after removing the ignored ID numbers, it would still not have thought anything out of the ordinary because it only reports NEW detections. This is because you wouldn't want to keep on being spammed notifications if someone kept logging in and out throughout one day. So yeah, this is probably what happened. This is also why it worked after you cleared your cookies.

Understand?

[exportforce]

I just did a livetest with a pal.
He registered with the same IP & Browser 2 Accounts.
The 2nd was banned instantly, the first one was not touched.
Can you please make it possible that it will ban BOTH, I am really extremly in need of this.

Also please make the mod report if already banned accounts do a multilogin.
I had someone logged in with shareaccounts which are already banned but I did NOT get a notice about that like AE Detector did.
(he just killed the cookies and that do a lot of ppl do. I need the option)

[Alfa1]

My forum has been without multiple account detection for some months and i would like to detect all members that have created multiple accounts. I understand that this hack only detects multiples in case they try to register. Not in case they already have registered?
Is there anything I can do to get a check of existing members?

[Kiros72]

I just did a livetest with a pal.
He registered with the same IP & Browser 2 Accounts.
The 2nd was banned instantly, the first one was not touched.
Can you please make it possible that it will ban BOTH, I am really extremly in need of this.

Also please make the mod report if already banned accounts do a multilogin.
I had someone logged in with shareaccounts which are already banned but I did NOT get a notice about that like AE Detector did.
(he just killed the cookies and that do a lot of ppl do. I need the option)

The original account isn't touched for safety measures. This is to protect you. Because if you don't have yourself on the ignored list for some reason (like testing something) and you get busted, you wouldn't want to get banned out of your own site... Would you? This is why I made it this way.

This modification should report those who do multiple logins regardless if they are banned or not (as long as it's a NEW detection).

My forum has been without multiple account detection for some months and i would like to detect all members that have created multiple accounts. I understand that this hack only detects multiples in case they try to register. Not in case they already have registered?
Is there anything I can do to get a check of existing members?

Unfortunately, this would require database work. I'm still in the slow, slow development of a major release, 2.0.0, which will include database features. Until the new version is released, the only suggestion that I can offer is to look through all of your past reports (if you haven't deleted them).

[exportforce]

The original account isn't touched for safety measures. This is to protect you. Because if you don't have yourself on the ignored list for some reason (like testing something) and you get busted, you wouldn't want to get banned out of your own site... Would you? This is why I made it this way.

This modification should report those who do multiple logins regardless if they are banned or not (as long as it's a NEW detection).

Can you optionally change this?
I am really in extreme need of this, that ALL accounts get instantly banned for multiaccounting, no matter who it will be.

Also I am in need of the notification from AE Detector that already banned accounts did a multiple login. So I can find new multipleaccounts too.

Also it would be very cool if the addon would also instantly send a note if a user accesses a 3rd account and the addon tells me again all 3 accounts, even if he just a minute ago logged in with another. Also it would be great if it would tell me which detection what nick has gotten to be multiple (Cookie, IP, both)

I have a really hard time with multipleaccounts, sometimes ppl with over 8 accounts show up, so just to tell a number.

(No, just preventing to register a new Account is not an option for me, for they just kill the cookies and reconnect if they recognize that)

[kursed]

it would still not have thought anything out of the ordinary because it only reports NEW detections. This is because you wouldn't want to keep on being spammed notifications if someone kept logging in and out throughout one day. So yeah, this is probably what happened. This is also why it worked after you cleared your cookies.

Understand?Understood. That I guess was the issue here. Thank you so very much for your help.

[Alfa1]

Unfortunately, this would require database work. I'm still in the slow, slow development of a major release, 2.0.0, which will include database features. Until the new version is released, the only suggestion that I can offer is to look through all of your past reports (if you haven't deleted them).
I have just recently got this hack to work. Until January i was using the AE detector. The few months without detection seems to have resulted in a lot of returning trolls.

DB features would be great.

Some suggestions:

- After each account:

Add a link to PM the member. (optimal would be a predefined PM text to be sent)
Add a link to search the database for all IP's that belong to the account.
Add a link to add the account to the miserable users group
Add a link to add the account to 'Tachy goes to Coventry'
Add a link to ban the member.- Add a function to ignore the accounts or IPs in the future.
- If an IP is reported, then add the whois.

[Kiros72]

Can you optionally change this?
I am really in extreme need of this, that ALL accounts get instantly banned for multiaccounting, no matter who it will be.

I'll try to include this option in my next version, but understand that this is not a priority of mine. This would be an unsafe feature that could get a lot of people in trouble, so again, it's no priority.

Also I am in need of the notification from AE Detector that already banned accounts did a multiple login. So I can find new multipleaccounts too.

Multiple Account Detection & Prevention already does this.

Also it would be very cool if the addon would also instantly send a note if a user accesses a 3rd account and the addon tells me again all 3 accounts, even if he just a minute ago logged in with another. Also it would be great if it would tell me which detection what nick has gotten to be multiple (Cookie, IP, both)

Multiple Account Detection & Prevention already does this too.

I have a really hard time with multipleaccounts, sometimes ppl with over 8 accounts show up, so just to tell a number.

(No, just preventing to register a new Account is not an option for me, for they just kill the cookies and reconnect if they recognize that)

Umm, okay, well if they clear they're cookies and have their IP address changes, there's nothing that anyone can do about that. The AE Detector didn't even have registration IP address checks. I don't see what you're wanting me to do about people trying to evade the system.

Understood. That I guess was the issue here. Thank you so very much for your help.

Glad I could help ;)

I have just recently got this hack to work. Until January i was using the AE detector. The few months without detection seems to have resulted in a lot of returning trolls.

DB features would be great.

Hmm, if you want to "start over," then you can either change the Cookie Name or do a cookie reset. The cookie reset would take a substantial amount of time, but the cookie name change would be immediate.

I cannot say exactly how long the wait will be for the next version, but it's going to be at least another couple of weeks. I've got a big project that I'm still working on.

[exportforce]

I'll try to include this option in my next version, but understand that this is not a priority of mine. This would be an unsafe feature that could get a lot of people in trouble, so again, it's no priority.

If it is a matter of money, please tell me a price to get this a bit higher into your priority list.
Maybe as a hardcoded option in a file, so if you really want to activate it, it is not easily accessable through the options :)


Multiple Account Detection & Prevention already does this too.
For me not. As Stated. Account X and Y are already banned for being shared accounts. Yesterday someone logged into both accounts with the same IP and browser and the System did NOT inform me about that.
About the detectiontype... in our test the text was missing, now on a real one it showed the detection very well :)

Umm, okay, well if they clear they're cookies and have their IP address changes, there's nothing that anyone can do about that. The AE Detector didn't even have registration IP address checks. I don't see what you're wanting me to do about people trying to evade the system.
If you directly deny a registration they'll figure more fast, that they should do this. If you let them register and instantly ban them, they don't fiddle around much. Don't know why but it works better that way :)

[BlueNinjaGo]

If you directly deny a registration they'll figure more fast, that they should do this. If you let them register and instantly ban them, they don't fiddle around much. Don't know why but it works better that way :)

Why don't you just set it up so the prevention usergroup is "banned" usergroup. That way, any alt (account B) is automatically banned.

This would NOT ban the original account.(Account A) But you would get a PM and/or a thread made, allowing you to manually ban the original account.

If you ban the original account, and the user tries to make another account (Account C), he/she would automatically be banned.

You can do all of that with the built in features.

As for users clearing cookies, using different browsers, or IP addresses, there's nothing Kiros or anyone can do about that. (AFAIK)

[exportforce]

Why don't you just set it up so the prevention usergroup is "banned" usergroup. That way, any alt (account B) is automatically banned.

This would NOT ban the original account.(Account A) But you would get a PM and/or a thread made, allowing you to manually ban the original account.

If you ban the original account, and the user tries to make another account (Account C), he/she would automatically be banned.

You can do all of that with the built in features.

As for users clearing cookies, using different browsers, or IP addresses, there's nothing Kiros or anyone can do about that. (AFAIK)
That is what I already do, but I need to have the first account instantly banned too.

[Alfa1]

I added these suggestions to my post, but I am not sure if you noticed them when you posted your reply, since you posted a long post only 27 minutes later.
Some suggestions:

- After each account:
Add a link to PM the member. (optimal would be a predefined PM text to be sent)
Add a link to search the database for all IP's that belong to the account.
Add a link to add the account to the miserable users group
Add a link to add the account to 'Tachy goes to Coventry'
Add a link to ban the member.- Add a function to ignore the accounts or IPs in the future.
- If an IP is reported, then add the whois.

[bigcurt]

Let me ask you a question. If all I want is for it to report to me cases of IP links/cookie links to a forum..and disable everything else. Should I just say with AE detector or is there something better/more secure about this mod? Thanks a ton for working on it bud.

Curt

[Markos]

is there anyway to stop it to detect Multiple ips cos i keep getting it detecting multiple accounts and they don't even know each other :S

[BlueNinjaGo]

is there anyway to stop it to detect Multiple ips cos i keep getting it detecting multiple accounts and they don't even know each other :S

You can disable the IP address part of it and only use the cookie part. If it's just a few users, you can add them to the ignore list...

[bond010007]

great work mate i try it now and installed

[Kiros72]

Quite a few new posts. Let's see...

If it is a matter of money, please tell me a price to get this a bit higher into your priority list.
Maybe as a hardcoded option in a file, so if you really want to activate it, it is not easily accessable through the options :)



For me not. As Stated. Account X and Y are already banned for being shared accounts. Yesterday someone logged into both accounts with the same IP and browser and the System did NOT inform me about that.
About the detectiontype... in our test the text was missing, now on a real one it showed the detection very well :)


If you directly deny a registration they'll figure more fast, that they should do this. If you let them register and instantly ban them, they don't fiddle around much. Don't know why but it works better that way :)

Well, I hate to be "that guy," but yes, money always helps, and I would work on a feature with much higher priority if I'm getting paid to do so.

The reason why it wouldn't have reported the a multiple account is that it only reports NEW detections. That means that if someone creates a duplicate account, and it catches it, you'll get a report about it, but if they keep login in to those two accounts, you won't get another report since it already notified you about the multiple accounts. You know?

I added these suggestions to my post, but I am not sure if you noticed them when you posted your reply, since you posted a long post only 27 minutes later.

No, I didn't notice your edit. Those are some good suggestions, mate. I'll see what I can do with future versions (it might not all come at once).

Let me ask you a question. If all I want is for it to report to me cases of IP links/cookie links to a forum..and disable everything else. Should I just say with AE detector or is there something better/more secure about this mod? Thanks a ton for working on it bud.

Curt

Well, the AE Detector does not support IP address checks and it does not have checks for registration. It also uses slower code. My modification is, in my honest opinion, a big step up. MPDev did a fine job, but he/she hasn't worked on that modification in a long time. Lastly, the AE Detector is not as feature-rich and well-documented as my modification. If all you want is reports about cookie/IP linked accounts, then you can use my modification and enable Silent Mode.

is there anyway to stop it to detect Multiple ips cos i keep getting it detecting multiple accounts and they don't even know each other :S

Yes, you can disable the IP address checks within the settings (found in the AdminCP).


Also, thank you, Muffin Man (BlueNinjaGo) for the support to others ;)

[Kiros72]

great work mate i try it now and installed

Awesome. Let me know if you have any questions/suggestions.

[BlueNinjaGo]

Also, thank you, Muffin Man (BlueNinjaGo) for the support to others ;)

No problem... 8 hours at work goes by so slow...

Hope I didn't step on your toes... Just tried to give answers to the questions that I (think I) can answer.

[nick.dap]

First off, Thank you! for a great module. It makes our lives so much easier.

If I may suggest a feature (sorry =P) to make this module completely automated.

Consider the following use case:

A vigilant user goes in through a proxy and registers 5 accounts within 5 minutes. We've seen it done.

Step by step, what happens:


Account 1 is registered, new IP (proxy remember), cleared cookies. We cannot prevent this.
Account 2 is registered, the IP is detected, Account 2 is moved to the prevention group, report is sent.
Account 3 is registered, the IP is detected, Account 3 is moved to the prevention group, report is sent.
... etc


Here is the problem:

All 5 accounts belong to the vigilant user. The last four are dealt with. However, the first account remains in the "Registered Users" group until we manually ban the account or move it to the prevention group. Needless to say this is not an ideal situation.

Solution/Proposed feature:


OPTION: Also move existing users to the prevention group - Yes/No
Yes - Move all previously registered users that are discovered to the prevention group.
No - Take no additional action.

[BlueNinjaGo]

OPTION: Also move existing users to the prevention group - Yes/No
Yes - Move all previously registered users that are discovered to the prevention group.
No - Take no additional action.


This was already requested. Scroll up for a response to that feature.

[Kiros72]

No problem... 8 hours at work goes by so slow...

Hope I didn't step on your toes... Just tried to give answers to the questions that I (think I) can answer.

Not at all ;)

First off, Thank you! for a great module. It makes our lives so much easier.

If I may suggest a feature (sorry =P) to make this module completely automated.

Consider the following use case:

A vigilant user goes in through a proxy and registers 5 accounts within 5 minutes. We've seen it done.

Step by step, what happens:


Account 1 is registered, new IP (proxy remember), cleared cookies. We cannot prevent this.
Account 2 is registered, the IP is detected, Account 2 is moved to the prevention group, report is sent.
Account 3 is registered, the IP is detected, Account 3 is moved to the prevention group, report is sent.
... etc


Here is the problem:

All 5 accounts belong to the vigilant user. The last four are dealt with. However, the first account remains in the "Registered Users" group until we manually ban the account or move it to the prevention group. Needless to say this is not an ideal situation.

Solution/Proposed feature:


OPTION: Also move existing users to the prevention group - Yes/No
Yes - Move all previously registered users that are discovered to the prevention group.
No - Take no additional action.


Yep. It's already been suggested. Not exactly like that, but it would still do the same thing. Thanks for the suggestion. It might have to wait until version 2.0.0 because unless there is a bug in the current version, I don't think there will be a 1.1.4.

[cozmin]

Is it ok to use this mod for my 3.8.2 forum ?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Yes, it works fine.

[I.am]

Hello sorry just a question but this mod work also if members are using proxy servers?

Thanks

[Raul7]

hi Kiros,
if i only care about login detection and not registration, i can just select no prevention and silent mode doesnt really matter then right?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Hello sorry just a question but this mod work also if members are using proxy servers?

Thanks

In regards to IP checking, AFAIK, it won't detect a user who uses a proxy. (There is a mod on here that allows VBulletin to see through SOME proxies.) But the user will have to use the proxy every time they log in, and for every post. If they forget to use the proxy just once, it'll be detected.

And I'm not sure about cookie detection.

[vitrag24]

wht's difference between Multiple account login detector (AE Detector) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183268&highlight=mods)
mod and this mod?
if difference, then which is better?
shd i keep both or only one? which?

[exportforce]

Yes another one that wants the same I do :D
First account instaban too! Yes. :)

I have a problem.
The thing just did not! ban a multiple one

Multiple login detected from ABCABC.

Other recognized logins for this user are:

1. XXXXXX
2. YYYYYYY
3. ZZZZZZ


[ :: Verbose Information :: ]

[ Cookie Information ]

Cookie Used: ThreadRead
Raw Data: ,1234,,12345,,123456,
Clean Data: 1234, 12345, 123456

[ Capture Information ]

Caught by: Cookie

[ Verbose Messages ]

[ Dev Information ]

Verbose Message Bitfields: 0

Yes the two commas are there already I only edited the values for security reasons.
It did NOT! ban ABCABC as it should.

[Kiros72]

Hello sorry just a question but this mod work also if members are using proxy servers?

Thanks

Technically, the IP address checks would come through if they used the same proxy server to register multiple accounts. Also, if the cookie information is passed through the proxy (which it should be for them to be able to login to vBulletin), then the cookie detection will also work.

hi Kiros,
if i only care about login detection and not registration, i can just select no prevention and silent mode doesnt really matter then right?

Correct. In version 1.x no action is taken for login detections. Action is only taken for registration prevention (if you enable it to).

wht's difference between Multiple account login detector (AE Detector) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183268&highlight=mods)
mod and this mod?
if difference, then which is better?
shd i keep both or only one? which?

The difference is plenty. MPDev's modification only detects logins. My modification detects logins and registrations and can prevent registrations as well. During registration, advanced IP checks can also take place if the administrator configures the options that way. Speaking of options, there are far more settings and features. There is also much better documentation for all of the configurations. My modification also uses faster functions (like explode() instead of split()) and in my opinion, it also has better logic within the code. On top of everything else, I provide support for my modification. I don't see too much support coming from MPDev, himself. I don't think that his/her modification is bad, but I honestly think that mine is better. That's the whole reason I built this modification up; I saw that major improvements could be made upon the idea.

Feel free to take my modification for a test-drive. You can always uninstall it and go back to the AE Detector if you want (everything will still work as it did before).

Also, you should not have my modification installed while the AE Detector is installed. Just chose one or the other.

Yes another one that wants the same I do :D
First account instaban too! Yes. :)

I have a problem.
The thing just did not! ban a multiple one



Yes the two commas are there already I only edited the values for security reasons.
It did NOT! ban ABCABC as it should.

Multiple Account Detection & Prevention is NOT supposed to ban for multiple logins. It is only supposed to ban multiple registrants if you have it configured to do so. This was a multiple login detection, not a registration detection. In other words, the person just logged into another account; he/she did not make a new one.

Get it? :)

[vitrag24]

The difference is plenty. MPDev's modification only detects logins. My modification detects logins and registrations and can prevent registrations as well. During registration, advanced IP checks can also take place if the administrator configures the options that way. Speaking of options, there are far more settings and features. There is also much better documentation for all of the configurations. My modification also uses faster functions (like explode() instead of split()) and in my opinion, it also has better logic within the code. On top of everything else, I provide support for my modification. I don't see too much support coming from MPDev, himself. I don't think that his/her modification is bad, but I honestly think that mine is better. That's the whole reason I built this modification up; I saw that major improvements could be made upon the idea.

Feel free to take my modification for a test-drive. You can always uninstall it and go back to the AE Detector if you want (everything will still work as it did before).

Also, you should not have my modification installed while the AE Detector is installed. Just chose one or the other.

Thanks.
i'll try your mod..it seems promising.
so do i have to uninstall AE detector mod first?
and i fear if your mod will move users or prevent from registrations to non-spammers too? as if someone surf on cybercafe and multiple users register there but they arent same but then ur mod will prevent them from registering?

i mean to ask wht does ur mod use to detect and prevent multiple registration?
wll it prevent non-spammers too anyway?

[static-skillz]

Is there any plan to fix the glitch regarding vBOptimize being installed?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Thanks.
i'll try your mod..it seems promising.
so do i have to uninstall AE detector mod first?
and i fear if your mod will move users or prevent from registrations to non-spammers too? as if someone surf on cybercafe and multiple users register there but they arent same but then ur mod will prevent them from registering?

i mean to ask wht does ur mod use to detect and prevent multiple registration?
wll it prevent non-spammers too anyway?

You should uninstall AE detector completely (not just disable) for it to function properly. (You can see by the comments that this has been verified again and again)

You can CHOOSE whether or not multiple accounts are moved to a prevention usergroup. Also, if you do choose to have multiple accounts moved to a prevention usergroup, you can always choose to move them to a new usergroup, after you verify they aren't a spammer/multiple account. (This does NOT stop them from registering.)

It's pretty much impossible to tell the difference between Spammer and non-Spammer by simply checking IP addresses or cookies. If you're worried about real, unique users being moved to a prevention usergroup, you can always activate "silent mode" which will ONLY notify you. (It will not take any actions in silent mode) This will help you get an idea of how many reports you can be expecting and give you an idea of how it works.

[sfc]

how do I uninstall.. I did a test and now can't get into my admin...

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

[exportforce]

Multiple Account Detection & Prevention is NOT supposed to ban for multiple logins. It is only supposed to ban multiple registrants if you have it configured to do so. This was a multiple login detection, not a registration detection. In other words, the person just logged into another account; he/she did not make a new one.

Get it? :)

I want those instantly banned too.
Can you add this too ?
What about my suggestion? Can a few $ put it in front of the cue ?

[Kiros72]

Thanks.
i'll try your mod..it seems promising.
so do i have to uninstall AE detector mod first?
and i fear if your mod will move users or prevent from registrations to non-spammers too? as if someone surf on cybercafe and multiple users register there but they arent same but then ur mod will prevent them from registering?

i mean to ask wht does ur mod use to detect and prevent multiple registration?
wll it prevent non-spammers too anyway?

You should uninstall AE detector completely (not just disable) for it to function properly. (You can see by the comments that this has been verified again and again)

You can CHOOSE whether or not multiple accounts are moved to a prevention usergroup. Also, if you do choose to have multiple accounts moved to a prevention usergroup, you can always choose to move them to a new usergroup, after you verify they aren't a spammer/multiple account. (This does NOT stop them from registering.)

It's pretty much impossible to tell the difference between Spammer and non-Spammer by simply checking IP addresses or cookies. If you're worried about real, unique users being moved to a prevention usergroup, you can always activate "silent mode" which will ONLY notify you. (It will not take any actions in silent mode) This will help you get an idea of how many reports you can be expecting and give you an idea of how it works.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Okay, well I would have added a few more things, but I'll do that now ;)

This modification will always check for a cookie that tracks which account the person has logged into. This happens for both registration and login. You can enable IP address detection for registration; this is to protect against someone clearing or modifying their cookies to get past the detection. Since IP addresses change and some (although very few) people may register while at a public place (i.e. library or cafe), I also include a time limit. This setting limits the time (in days) in which the modification will look for matching IP addresses. Take this scenario for example:

You have the IP address checks enabled and you have the time limit set to 30 days. Someone registers on a public computer. Two months later, another person registers on the same computer. Although they might have matching IP addresses, the modification knows to ignore it since it is past the time limit of 30 days.

So I would like to confirm this for you. You have nothing to worry about. You will be able to reverse anything (such as bans or changed usergroups) and you can uninstall it at any time and reinstall AE Detector with no permanent consequences. :)

Is there any plan to fix the glitch regarding vBOptimize being installed?

Unfortunately, the author of vBOptimise refuses to respond to my private messages. I cannot find anything wrong with my code, so I think he/she will have to be the one to fix this glitch. If I need to change something, then I will gladly, but again, I cannot find anything wrong with my code. Please notify the author of vBOptimise about this inconvenience. He/she might know what to do.

how do I uninstall.. I did a test and now can't get into my admin...

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

It looks like you don't have the files correctly uploaded. The files within the 'upload' folder should be uploaded to your forum root. Once you have the files in place, it will work just fine. I can help you with this privately if you would like my assistance.

If you just want to uninstall it, you will need to add this line near the top of your config.php file:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Reupload your config.php file and all hooks will be disabled. You will be able to login and modify whatever you need to.

I want those instantly banned too.
Can you add this too ?
What about my suggestion? Can a few $ put it in front of the cue ?

Yes, I'll have actions available for multiple logins for my next major release.
Also, yes, money always helps. I work on projects that I get paid for before I work on projects that I wouldn't get paid for.

[Alfa1]

It would be good to have more functions to deal with returning banned members / trolls that keep opening new accounts.

Here's a functionality request / suggestion:

Have a usergoup that is not able to log out. Members in that usergroup are automatically forwarded to a site of your choice.

This way, returning trolls could silently be moved to this usergoup. They would not be able to log out except by clearing cookies.

Logician once created a code that disallowed banned members from logging out.

[Kiros72]

It would be good to have more functions to deal with returning banned members / trolls that keep opening new accounts.

Here's a functionality request / suggestion:

Have a usergoup that is not able to log out. Members in that usergroup are automatically forwarded to a site of your choice.

This way, returning trolls could silently be moved to this usergoup. They would not be able to log out except by clearing cookies.

Logician once created a code that disallowed banned members from logging out.

Hmm, while I do make other modifications (privately), this one modification has a set theme: detecting and preventing multiple accounts. Your suggestion is for a modification that deals with banned users, which is not what this modification is about. If you would like me to create a modification for such a purpose, I'll get around to it when I have the time. It's a good idea, though ;)

[Alfa1]

Yes, thats true. Such modification would be a wonderful addition to the functionality that the MAD&P is offering.

Please create this modification when you find the time.

[Kiros72]

Yes, thats true. Such modification would be a wonderful addition to the functionality that the MAD&P is offering.

Please create this modification when you find the time.

Will do. I have a different ban-oriented modification that I'm about to release for public consumption. Keep an eye out for it.

[JiggyDempsey]

how do I uninstall.. I did a test and now can't get into my admin...

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

I've ran into this problem too

I cant access my admin cp to disable

Help!

[gamerscms]

I've ran into this problem too

I cant access my admin cp to disable

Help!

That is a common error when you have not uploaded the files correct, try uploading them again and it should fix your error :)

[Kiros72]

I've ran into this problem too

I cant access my admin cp to disable

Help!

Just like gamerscms said, you have to upload the files in the correct way. Make sure that the /madp/ folder is uploaded to the forum root and also make sure you uploaded all of the files within /madp/.

[barbados]

Is this hack working with 3.8.2 ?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Is this hack working with 3.8.2 ?

Yes... No one has said it hasn't

[Kiros72]

Confirmed! This works perfectly on all vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 versions.

Just to get that out there ;)

[tranceup]

The deal with using Chrome in 'incognito' mode is that it clears the cookies after closing it.
This means that a user that closes that browser and reopens it, won't trip the detector after
logging in with another identity, though we know that he/she may trip it when trying to log
in with an alter ego before closing that browser.


:up::up::up::up:

[BlueNinjaGo]

Firefox has the same option. That's why he has the IP checker in there too...

[Kiros72]

The deal with using Chrome in 'incognito' mode is that it clears the cookies after closing it.
This means that a user that closes that browser and reopens it, won't trip the detector after
logging in with another identity, though we know that he/she may trip it when trying to log
in with an alter ego before closing that browser.


:up::up::up::up:

Firefox has the same option. That's why he has the IP checker in there too...

Mhmm! Unfortunately, I still need to get IP checking into the login feature, but as of the current version, IP checks can be done during registration. Therefore, even if a person is using Chrome and thinks that he/she is being cunning by using Incognito Mode to register a new account, it will still catch them. Of course, the IP address feature needs to be enabled if you want it to check.

[Trek]

Installed, very nice work!

I have a question though. I installed this after realizing I had a problem. How can I go about fixing the problem from current users?

Is there a way to match people by IP so I can see any dupes?

Also, it looks like this mod will check people as dupes whenever they login, is this the case? (If so, it negates my having to worry about issues before I installed this).

Thanks, and again nice work!

[Kiros72]

Installed, very nice work!

I have a question though. I installed this after realizing I had a problem. How can I go about fixing the problem from current users?

Is there a way to match people by IP so I can see any dupes?

Also, it looks like this mod will check people as dupes whenever they login, is this the case? (If so, it negates my having to worry about issues before I installed this).

Thanks, and again nice work!

Yup. That's correct. This checks logins and registrations. Therefore, you don't need to worry about past problems; if they are currently logging into multiple accounts, this will catch them. And yes, there are IP address options for registration. ;)

[ricardoNJ]

Hi, This hack block a IP user and it show me in a thread (invisible for other, I guess) . My question is: Can I choose or create a thread for the notices that sent to me this hack go there? and how?

Thanks and I'm sorry for my bad english.

[Kiros72]

Hi, This hack block a IP user and it show me in a thread (invisible for other, I guess) . My question is: Can I choose or create a thread for the notices that sent to me this hack go there? and how?

Thanks and I'm sorry for my bad english.

No problem ;)

The threads that this modification creates are only private if the forum is private. In other words, if you set MADP to post threads in a public forum, they will be public. If you set it to post in a private forum, then only the people that have permission to view the forum will be able to see the thread.

Anyway, you can make the modification send you a private message instead of posting a thread. To do this, go to the Multiple Account Detection & Prevention Reporting options. You should see an option that will enable reporting by private messages. You have to enable it and you must enter your username (not your User ID) in the appropriate area.

If you need more help finding this option, let me know.

[exportforce]

After a month I yet again ask you:
Please enable an option that bans the first account too and also on multiple logins to ban both accounts automatically. In the last 3 weeks I am extremly encountering ppl that create up to 10 accounts and I can't even ban as fast as they create new accounts.

Please let US decide wether those should be banned too, for myself it is extremly urgent.

regards

[Kiros72]

After a month I yet again ask you:
Please enable an option that bans the first account too and also on multiple logins to ban both accounts automatically. In the last 3 weeks I am extremly encountering ppl that create up to 10 accounts and I can't even ban as fast as they create new accounts.

Please let US decide wether those should be banned too, for myself it is extremly urgent.

regards

Coding takes work. It won't happen if I just think about it. It takes work, and as of late, I've been doubly stressed because of final exams and graduate fiascoes. Now that I'm out of school, I should have two months of freedom (at least from scholastic activities).

Also, I never anticipated on releasing another 1.1.x version. The next planned release is 2.0.0, which incorporates database features and they are still of my highest priority. These database features are not easy to form. It's very complicated in the code, at least for me.

I do not have a release date planned. Just be patient and wait it out. If I do not have version 2.0.0 released within another month, I'll go ahead and work on one, last, 1.1.x version (1.1.4).

[exportforce]

If I pay you $20, will you implement this early ?
I don't know, but I think, that since you already "recognize" those, it can't be hard to activate it for us. I know that coding isn't easy, since I code bymyself a lot, but also some things are really important and if you would see my double, trippleaccounts you'd know how urgent it is for me.

[Kiros72]

If I pay you $20, will you implement this early ?
I don't know, but I think, that since you already "recognize" those, it can't be hard to activate it for us. I know that coding isn't easy, since I code bymyself a lot, but also some things are really important and if you would see my double, trippleaccounts you'd know how urgent it is for me.

Sure. Some support always helps, and because I appreciate such support, I'll go ahead and release a 1.1.4 version with the feature you've requested. I should have it out within a few days (a week at most).

[exportforce]

Sure. Some support always helps, and because I appreciate such support, I'll go ahead and release a 1.1.4 version with the feature you've requested. I should have it out within a few days (a week at most).

As soon as you release that, please send me your Paypal-Adress via PM
I like to support, if it does help, and I really know that every $ helps in every way.
No more manual banning for first accounts, multiple login-accounts and stuff *drool*

big thanks in advance!

[Rideharder]

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/kaplanfo/public_html/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/kaplanfo/public_html/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

I cant log in ..how can I remove this mod if I cant log back into my fourm?

[Rideharder]

My bad its working! files was not uploaded like it needed to be

[Zagis]

I cant log in ..how can I remove this mod if I cant log back into my fourm?
Disable all the plugins by adding this into your confing.php file right after <?php
define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);Log in to your ACP, remove the mod and then remove or comment // the line above to enable the plugins again.

Edit: Just saw that you've fixed it :up:

[Rideharder]

Disable all the plugins by adding this into your confing.php file right after <?php
define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);Log in to your ACP, remove the mod and then remove or comment // the line above to enable the plugins again.

Edit: Just saw that you've fixed it :up:


Thank you for trying to help!:up:

I uploaded everything inside the folder and not the folder itself to my main directory.. Apparently that was my issue..

[Kiros72]

Thank you for trying to help!:up:

I uploaded everything inside the folder and not the folder itself to my main directory.. Apparently that was my issue..

Yep. You must upload everything from the 'upload' folder "as is." Sorry about the confusion.

[exportforce]

Any news ?

[Kiros72]

Well, to be honest, I've been busier than previously estimated. So I haven't been able to work on this much, but I'll see if I can finish it up by the end of today.

[cynthetiq]

I didn't follow directions initially re: removing AE completely, but I've done that and now it's working to detect, but it isn't reporting into the forum I list. I'm not sure why. I've added the PM aspect to see if that's works.

anyone have any suggestions?

[Kiros72]

I didn't follow directions initially re: removing AE completely, but I've done that and now it's working to detect, but it isn't reporting into the forum I list. I'm not sure why. I've added the PM aspect to see if that's works.

anyone have any suggestions?

I've never had this problem. Of course, double check that you have thread reporting enabled and that you have the forum ID correctly input. The forum should be a forum (not a category) and open for posting. You might want to try disabling any modifications that might get in the way.

[cynthetiq]

okay. I got it to PM me with a verbose message. It is working since it banned several accounts this morning, it's just not posting into the forum specified. I don't know why.

Multiple login detected from gg44444 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148436).

Other recognized logins for this user are:


k55555 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148212)
kkk555 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148240)
k666666 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148319)
kkk6666 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148345)
g7777777 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148379)
gg88888 (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=148411)


[ :: Verbose Information :: ]

[ Cookie Information ]

Cookie Used: IDstack
Raw Data: ,148212,,148240,,148319,,148345,,148379,,148411,
Clean Data: 148212, 148240, 148319, 148345, 148379, 148411

[ Capture Information ]

Caught by: Cookie

[ Verbose Messages ]

[ Dev Information ]

Verbose Message Bitfields: 0

[Kiros72]

okay. I got it to PM me with a verbose message. It is working since it banned several accounts this morning, it's just not posting into the forum specified. I don't know why.

I'll need to investigate this issue on your board. If you'd like me to take a look, please PM me some kind of login details with administrative privileges.

[JessicaS]

Is there a way to prevent it from detecting certain ISPs like AOL? AOL ISP are shared between many users.

I am concerned how it would work with AOL.

[Kiros72]

Is there a way to prevent it from detecting certain ISPs like AOL? AOL ISP are shared between many users.

I am concerned how it would work with AOL.

Yes, one of the features is "Ignored ISPs." AOL is ignored by default, but you can remove the domain from the exclusion if you wish. Also, this only works for IP address detection because it doesn't have to do with the cookie detection. If you don't use the IP address features, then you don't even have to worry about fiddling with the Ignored ISPs.

Hope that helps :)

[BlueNinjaGo]

okay. I got it to PM me with a verbose message. It is working since it banned several accounts this morning, it's just not posting into the forum specified. I don't know why.

The "user" you have set to post the thread can post in whatever board you wish for it to post in, right?

[cynthetiq]

yes, it's the user account 1 and used by the board owner. I'm going to try a different user account just in case.

[W!cKeD]

* Thanks & Installed * :up:
_____
In the last time, my "Multiple Account-Checker" post in my Forum "_" in the title and in the CODE-Tag :(

[peterle1]

okay. I got it to PM me with a verbose message. It is working since it banned several accounts this morning, it's just not posting into the forum specified. I don't know why.

Hey, I know that guy whom you mention in your quote ...

I would very much apprecciate, if this mod here would be integrated with a look up at zen.spamhaus.org to stop those spammers.

[W!cKeD]

* Thanks & Installed * :up:
_____
In the last time, my "Multiple Account-Checker" post in my Forum "_" in the title and in the CODE-Tag :(

For better Explain.. ==> Look @ Attach

Dont know what it is :( any hints or fixes?

Thanks

[Kiros72]

Hey, I know that guy whom you mention in your quote ...

I would very much apprecciate, if this mod here would be integrated with a look up at zen.spamhaus.org to stop those spammers.

I'm sorry, but this isn't a spam detection system. The scope of this modification is all about multiple accounts. If you want to use a spam modification, it should still work just fine.

For better Explain.. ==> Look @ Attach

Dont know what it is :( any hints or fixes?

Thanks

You have vBOptimise installed, don't you? Disable it and the reports should work. I've heard that reporting through PM still works while vBOptimise is enabled, so you might want to try that as an alternative. Sorry about the confusion.

[W!cKeD]

You have vBOptimise installed, don't you? Disable it and the reports should work. I've heard that reporting through PM still works while vBOptimise is enabled, so you might want to try that as an alternative. Sorry about the confusion.

Yes, i have vBOptimise installed :( and turned off..i hope you or the coder of vBOptimise find a solution fo this in the future :)

But Thanks for help :up:

[Kiros72]

Yes, i have vBOptimise installed :( and turned off..i hope you or the coder of vBOptimise find a solution fo this in the future :)

But Thanks for help :up:

Sure thing. Thank you :)

[SCRIPT3R]

I'm about to go read through this thread in case I missed it, but as of today this is NOT working on my forum. See screenshots below.

[Kiros72]

I'm about to go read through this thread in case I missed it, but as of today this is NOT working on my forum. See screenshots below.

My guess is that one user in the screenshot was already registered with a different IP address. When the other user registered, it was with a different IP address and with cleared cookies. When someone is disallowed to register and they really want to register, they think outside of the box.

[SCRIPT3R]

My guess is that one user in the screenshot was already registered with a different IP address. When the other user registered, it was with a different IP address and with cleared cookies. When someone is disallowed to register and they really want to register, they think outside of the box.

It's the same user that just registered another account. Same registered IP address for both accounts.

[aleclee]

I'm trying to come up with a way to get the ban functionality to apply to both the Banned and Suspended usergroups. I've thought about promoting them into a secondary "Sanctioned" usergroup and using that to detect folks but then I'd have to manually remove folks from the sanctioned usergroup.

Any suggestions? TIA!

[Kiros72]

It's the same user that just registered another account. Same registered IP address for both accounts.

I would have to investigate this issue personally. If you would like me to, contact me through PM.

I'm trying to come up with a way to get the ban functionality to apply to both the Banned and Suspended usergroups. I've thought about promoting them into a secondary "Sanctioned" usergroup and using that to detect folks but then I'd have to manually remove folks from the sanctioned usergroup.

Any suggestions? TIA!

I'm really not sure what you mean by "get the ban functionality to apply to both the Banned and Suspended usergroups." Could you elaborate?

[Kiros72]

Hmm... Someone gave my modification a 1/5... Wonder why they disliked this modification so much. Maybe they just gave me the lowest rating because I had the highest rated modification with over 450 installs. Oh well.

[aleclee]

I'm really not sure what you mean by "get the ban functionality to apply to both the Banned and Suspended usergroups." Could you elaborate?The board I manage has issues with Banned and Suspended members creating additional accounts to get around their banishment. I'd like to be able to have suspended members' additional accounts auto-banned just like it does for banned members.

Thanks!

[cynthetiq]

thanks for your help with the reporting, the 15+ posts required was killing it for some reason. Once I disabled it, reporting worked right away!

I'm wondering if this would work in its place, Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count. Anyone using both mods?

[Kiros72]

The board I manage has issues with Banned and Suspended members creating additional accounts to get around their banishment. I'd like to be able to have suspended members' additional accounts auto-banned just like it does for banned members.

Thanks!

Roger that. I'll be continuing work on it after I'm better. I'm in a poor state of mind right now because there has been a tragedy in my family.

thanks for your help with the reporting, the 15+ posts required was killing it for some reason. Once I disabled it, reporting worked right away!

I'm wondering if this would work in its place, Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count. Anyone using both mods?


Good to hear. I haven't used that modification in combination with my modification, but who knows, it might be able to work. Generally, Cyb modifications are well-coded and flexible. The primary coder behind those modifications is an insane coder. I'd love to have his mad skills.


Just to recap, I'll be away for a bit of time while I go to my father's wake and funeral. During the next week, I will probably not be online at all, so everyone will have to be patient with me (especially with questions). If you're having any problems with my modification, try to look through this thread because there's a great deal of information and it will probably let you know what to do.

[MarkusB]

hmmm its only me?

This mod worked fine for me until i made the VB update to version: 3.8.3 now no messages appearing any more.

Yes i deleted the relevant groups in "Ignored Usergroups" and marked No in the "Ignore Child Accounts" by my test

Any Ideas on that before i try to make just a new fresh install of this very superb Mod :up:

Edit: after a reinstall of this Mod still no chance to get it running correct.

cheers, Mark

[Kintaro81]

How can I reset the past tracking data?
can be a solution change che name of the cookie?

[Ryloth]

i am interested to see if it will work on 3.8.3 as well. i just installed a fresh forum and am hesitant to install w/o confirmation of this working.

[Kintaro81]

Have you read the description?
"Confirmed! This works perfectly on all vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 versions."

[Ryloth]

Have you read the description?
"Confirmed! This works perfectly on all vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 versions."


Have you read the previous page? Or even the product xml? Or quotes from people w/ 3.8.3? Read before you type.


hmmm its only me?

This mod worked fine for me until i made the VB update to version: 3.8.3 now no messages appearing any more.

Yes i deleted the relevant groups in "Ignored Usergroups" and marked No in the "Ignore Child Accounts" by my test

Any Ideas on that before i try to make just a new fresh install of this very superb Mod :up:

Edit: after a reinstall of this Mod still no chance to get it running correct.

cheers, Mark

[Kiros72]

hmmm its only me?

This mod worked fine for me until i made the VB update to version: 3.8.3 now no messages appearing any more.

Yes i deleted the relevant groups in "Ignored Usergroups" and marked No in the "Ignore Child Accounts" by my test

Any Ideas on that before i try to make just a new fresh install of this very superb Mod :up:

Edit: after a reinstall of this Mod still no chance to get it running correct.

cheers, Mark

Are you absolutely certain that you didn't change any settings or install/uninstall any modifications immediately before or after you upgraded to vBulletin 3.8.3?

How can I reset the past tracking data?
can be a solution change che name of the cookie?

Yes, if you would like a "clean slate" all you need to do is change the cookie name.

i am interested to see if it will work on 3.8.3 as well. i just installed a fresh forum and am hesitant to install w/o confirmation of this working.

This modification's plugins do not alter any database information, so it wouldn't do any harm to install it. I haven't known vBulletin to release any maintenance update that would affect thread-posting or PM-sending methods in such a way that the parameters or method names change. Seen as how I haven't had any other complaints that are related to this matter which I can recall, and over 500 people have it installed, I don't think that it's the upgrade to vBulletin 3.8.3 that did it. I could be wrong, but I'm more confident that it will work perfectly fine on vBulletin 3.8.3, just as it did on 3.8.2.

Have you read the description?
"Confirmed! This works perfectly on all vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 versions."

Thank you for noting that! :)

Have you read the previous page? Or even the product xml? Or quotes from people w/ 3.8.3? Read before you type.

Unless I'm mistaken, there was only one person that claimed of a clash with vBulletin 3.8.3, which was on the previous page. And I'm not sure how the product XML file has anything to do with the compatibility of a new, minor maintenance release.

I'd like to assume that at least 1/5 of the 500+ installations is running on up-to-date vBulletin software. So that would be 100 people (maybe more, maybe less) that are probably running this with vBulletin 3.8.3. If only a single person posted anything about it, I'm doubtful that other people are having problems. My doubt is based on the numbers... But again, I could be wrong.

I'll be testing this as soon as I can get a vBulletin 3.8.3 test installation installed, which might take several days because the license needs to be renewed. Until then, feel free to install it and then uninstall it if it doesn't work properly. Also, please be patient.

Thank you,
Ben

[exportforce]

Any updates about the implementation of banning previous created accounts and banning multiple logins ?

[Kiros72]

Any updates about the implementation of banning previous created accounts and banning multiple logins ?

Not right now. I'm trying to get finances straightened up. The wake & funeral and other expenses cost about $8000, and my father didn't have life insurance, so I'm pretty much SOL at the moment and I don't have hours to dedicate to coding at the moment.

[pigsy]

I use Multiple Account Login Detector currently. I have two questions:

1. Am I right in saying this is improved over that because a) it checks for ip matches too; and b) it can catch users at registration and move to a usergroup or disallow registration.

2. If I install this it will have to set its own cookies; does that mean it will take some time to be as effective as the Multiple Account Login Detector - because it tracks by cookie, and when first installed users dont have this cookie installed.

I'm just deciding whether its worth upgrading - thanks!

[synseal]

Thanks for this, working perfectly on 3.8.2, installed :D

[pigsy]

Any reply to my question above - thanks! (apologies for the reminder!)

[BlueNinjaGo]

I use Multiple Account Login Detector currently. I have two questions:

1. Am I right in saying this is improved over that because a) it checks for ip matches too; and b) it can catch users at registration and move to a usergroup or disallow registration.

2. If I install this it will have to set its own cookies; does that mean it will take some time to be as effective as the Multiple Account Login Detector - because it tracks by cookie, and when first installed users dont have this cookie installed.

I'm just deciding whether its worth upgrading - thanks!

This has been answered in the thread already. And if you check by IP address as well, it'll start working automatically.

[Kiros72]

I use Multiple Account Login Detector currently. I have two questions:

1. Am I right in saying this is improved over that because a) it checks for ip matches too; and b) it can catch users at registration and move to a usergroup or disallow registration.

2. If I install this it will have to set its own cookies; does that mean it will take some time to be as effective as the Multiple Account Login Detector - because it tracks by cookie, and when first installed users dont have this cookie installed.

I'm just deciding whether its worth upgrading - thanks!

1. Yes and yes. It also has faster function calls (like explode() instead of split()) and personally, I think I have improved upon the logic of the original modification from MPDev. Also, there are far more options like the one that I discuss in the second portion of this response.

2. Nope. I made this modification to be backwards compatible, meaning that if someone had MPDev's login detector, MADP will use the cookies (named IDstack) that have already been set by it. This happens by default. However, the administrators can change the cookie name to be something else and the effect of such would be a "clean slate" for everyone. But it will resume tracking each login and registration. Remember, this is completely optional. By default, it will use the IDstack cookies that MPDev's login detector uses.

Thanks for this, working perfectly on 3.8.2, installed :D

Glad to hear. Hope you enjoy it as much as everyone else is :)

[pigsy]

Fantastic! Thanks Kiros you just saved me reading over 372 previous posts :)

[tnedator]

By tracking "each login and registration", does this mean that on a clean install, each time an existing member logs in for the first time after this mod is installed, they will get a cookie with their login info, and then from that point forward if they were to create a second account, the mod would catch it?

[dadoc]

I have installed this and I am using 3.7.0

It did work and was able to open it within the CP

Now I have an error when I try to log in to my CP

This is the error

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/crimecas/public_html/forum/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/crimecas/public_html/forum/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

It is rather urgent that I can get access to my CP
I hope that anyone can help me.
even if you need access to my site I can give you tha?

Please Help

Regards
Ryan

[Kiros72]

Fantastic! Thanks Kiros you just saved me reading over 372 previous posts :)

Not a problem :)

By tracking "each login and registration", does this mean that on a clean install, each time an existing member logs in for the first time after this mod is installed, they will get a cookie with their login info, and then from that point forward if they were to create a second account, the mod would catch it?

Exactly, yes. As long as they use the same browser and don't clear their cookies, it will catch the second account, and the third one, and so on. If you enable IP address detection, they may be caught if they still have the same IP address.

I have installed this and I am using 3.7.0

It did work and was able to open it within the CP

Now I have an error when I try to log in to my CP

This is the error

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/crimecas/public_html/forum/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/crimecas/public_html/forum/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

It is rather urgent that I can get access to my CP
I hope that anyone can help me.
even if you need access to my site I can give you tha?

Please Help

Regards
Ryan

Once again, this is the classic symptom of missing files. Make sure you upload everything in the /upload/ folder to your forum root. That means, if your forum is at www.example.com/forums/, then you should have the files uploaded at www.example.com/forums/madp/ because the /madp/ folder is within the /upload/ folder. Read the ReadMe.txt please.

[tnedator]

Thanks Kiros for the nice mod. I was able to successfully trigger an alert PM with some test accounts. This is going to be a handy mod.

[Kiros72]

Thanks Kiros for the nice mod. I was able to successfully trigger an alert PM with some test accounts. This is going to be a handy mod.

Glad to hear that :)

[Ryloth]

I will confirm this does work on 3.8.3 just fine. I have been running it for a few days now and have caught a few people. Works well.

[Kiros72]

I will confirm this does work on 3.8.3 just fine. I have been running it for a few days now and have caught a few people. Works well.

Goodness, thank you! I knew there was something I was forgetting to do :o

That's a relief ^_^

[Tomas J Anderso]

Is this mod compatible with vBFirewall ? I'm getting alot of wrong detections and never used this plugin before and I can't afford to turn vBFirewall off to test.

Anyone running both of them ?

[Kiros72]

Is this mod compatible with vBFirewall ? I'm getting alot of wrong detections and never used this plugin before and I can't afford to turn vBFirewall off to test.

Anyone running both of them ?

I've never heard of vBFirewall, and I don't see why such a thing would be necessary. vBulletin is pretty secure as is. But as you're having problems, I can look into it if you PM me with login details.

[pigsy]

I have a question.. is there a way to set it up so that multiple users who have been banned previously are sent to a moderation usergroup, but those that haven't just get reported - no action is taken immediately. That's how I want to set it up - but I can't seem to find how!

[NetRover]

Hi there, I have installed this on 3.8.2 to replace the original login detection only version.

I have tried several test forums accounts and I have found the registration alerts are working via pm and forum posting.

I have not yet had any login alerts.

I've done all the settings.

I also disabled vboptimise rather than remove for the moment.

I think it must be fine with optimised turned off because the register alert is working.

Is that likely or do you think I should just remove it comletely and then try?

many thanks for reading my request

[pigsy]

Kiros, any update on my question? Thanks :)

[Kiros72]

I have a question.. is there a way to set it up so that multiple users who have been banned previously are sent to a moderation usergroup, but those that haven't just get reported - no action is taken immediately. That's how I want to set it up - but I can't seem to find how!

Sorry, I was out of town for a little while. I haven't set up anything to operate like that, but I'll see what I can do in future releases.

Hi there, I have installed this on 3.8.2 to replace the original login detection only version.

I have tried several test forums accounts and I have found the registration alerts are working via pm and forum posting.

I have not yet had any login alerts.

I've done all the settings.

I also disabled vboptimise rather than remove for the moment.

I think it must be fine with optimised turned off because the register alert is working.

Is that likely or do you think I should just remove it comletely and then try?

many thanks for reading my request

If you tried testing the registration yourself, and then tried logging in with the same accounts that you registered, it wouldn't alert you. The modification is set up to only report new cases. For instance, if someone created one account on one computer, and another account on another computer, the registration would not be caught because of the virtual location difference. Now if that same person logged into both accounts on the same computer, the login detection would catch it because it didn't recognize the multiple account earlier during registration.

Let me know if you would like me to help you out.

[pigsy]

Thanks Kiros - I know that we definitely want to ban multiple accounts (or put them in a moderation queue) who have previously been banned; and the rest can just be reported.

[Mimirswell]

Have you considered enhancing the IP check by having some basic proxy detection? The Proxy IP to Real IP conversion (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201211) being a base example of how you might integrate it (ie detecting the http variables and passing the real IP to be checked).

[Zagis]

Have you considered enhancing the IP check by having some basic proxy detection? The Proxy IP to Real IP conversion (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201211) being a base example of how you might integrate it (ie detecting the http variables and passing the real IP to be checked).
That would be great addition!

[Alfa1]

I already have proxy to IP. Am I correct that MADP and Proxy to Real IP work together?

[trotskid]

Hi. I also use vBOptimise but doesn?t work correctly the reports with function move to usergoup (thread nor PM) :(

I use v3.8.3

[Kiros72]

Have you considered enhancing the IP check by having some basic proxy detection? The Proxy IP to Real IP conversion (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201211) being a base example of how you might integrate it (ie detecting the http variables and passing the real IP to be checked).

I believe this has already been suggested. I have not gotten to it yet, but it is on my list of additions.

I already have proxy to IP. Am I correct that MADP and Proxy to Real IP work together?

Sadly, I do not think that this works as intended. Unless the Proxy to Real IP modification sets the global IP address variable... I'll work to either make the two modifications compatible or to add a comparable internal functionality to my modification.

Hi. I also use vBOptimise but doesn?t work correctly the reports with function move to usergoup (thread nor PM) :(

I use v3.8.3

The author of vBOptimise never responded to my inquiries. So it looks like he/she doesn't want to cooperate with me to find a solution. I apologize for this inconvenience, but you may have to chose between a slightly optimized vBulletin or the functionality of Multiple Account Detection & Prevention.

[trotskid]

The author of vBOptimise never responded to my inquiries. So it looks like he/she doesn't want to cooperate with me to find a solution. I apologize for this inconvenience, but you may have to chose between a slightly optimized vBulletin or the functionality of Multiple Account Detection & Prevention.

I understand, thanks anyway :up:. I will use the function Disallow Multiple Registrants with no report.

Regards

[Mimirswell]

I believe this has already been suggested. I have not gotten to it yet, but it is on my list of additions.Great because while this hack is very well done, if it can be easily bypassed by proxies and a cookie clear, it's not robust enough.

[Tree Guardian]

3.8.3 works beautiful - Thank You

[DeanLag]

Invalid SQL:

SELECT
post.*, post.username AS postusername, post.ipaddress AS ip, IF(post.visible = 2, 1, 0) AS isdeleted,
user.*, userfield.*, usertextfield.*,
icon.title as icontitle, icon.iconpath,
avatar.avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustomavatar, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline,customavatar.width AS avwidth,customavatar.height AS avheight,

editlog.userid AS edit_userid, editlog.username AS edit_username, editlog.dateline AS edit_dateline,
editlog.reason AS edit_reason, editlog.hashistory,
postparsed.pagetext_html, postparsed.hasimages,
sigparsed.signatureparsed, sigparsed.hasimages AS sighasimages,
sigpic.userid AS sigpic, sigpic.dateline AS sigpicdateline, sigpic.width AS sigpicwidth, sigpic.height AS sigpicheight,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, infractiongroupid


FROM post AS post
LEFT JOIN user AS user ON(user.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN userfield AS userfield ON(userfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON(usertextfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN icon AS icon ON(icon.iconid = post.iconid)
LEFT JOIN avatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN customavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)

LEFT JOIN editlog AS editlog ON(editlog.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN postparsed AS postparsed ON(postparsed.postid = post.postid AND postparsed.styleid = 12 AND postparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigparsed AS sigparsed ON(sigparsed.userid = user.userid AND sigparsed.styleid = 12 AND sigparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigpic AS sigpic ON(sigpic.userid = post.userid)

WHERE post.threadid = AND post.dateline > 1247663474 AND (post.visible = 1 OR post.postid = 47468)

ORDER BY dateline;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND post.dateline > 1247663474 AND (post.visible = 1 OR post.postid = 47468)
' at line 27
Error Number : 1064


Why? :( I got this msg 5 times.

Edit: Just got it 40 times overnight. Is it when someone logs onto the forums? =o

[pigsy]

Would you consider supporting LSO cookies.

If you set an LSO cookie (they are set by flash) then a normal cache clear wont get rid of it, and they are persistent across sites.

Shouldn't have too much trouble playing off a small flash pixel in one corner which sets the cookie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object

[Chrisg20]

thank you, installed

[Kiros72]

Why? :( I got this msg 5 times.

Edit: Just got it 40 times overnight. Is it when someone logs onto the forums? =o

Sorry, but I don't think that my modification is related to those errors. I see where the syntax is messed up, but without knowing where that query is coming from (the file, that is) then I'm not going to be able to help you out. =/

Would you consider supporting LSO cookies.

If you set an LSO cookie (they are set by flash) then a normal cache clear wont get rid of it, and they are persistent across sites.

Shouldn't have too much trouble playing off a small flash pixel in one corner which sets the cookie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object

Well, I'm not flash coder, and from the looks of it, that would require more code and files and it would just make things more complicated. So for now and probably for years to come, I'm not going to be messing with LSO cookies. Sorry =[

[ItsikN]

Hi,

I turned off the registration preventation option since at the moment I want the app only to to detect and report duplicates without preventation.

However, the app reported today the following "The new account has been moved to the Prevention Usergroup" and moved it into the "COPPA users awaiting..."

I'm using VB 3.8.3.

Any advice?

Thanks.

[Kiros72]

Hi,

I turned off the registration preventation option since at the moment I want the app only to to detect and report duplicates without preventation.

However, the app reported today the following "The new account has been moved to the Prevention Usergroup" and moved it into the "COPPA users awaiting..."

I'm using VB 3.8.3.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Well I believe that is the default option for registration prevention. Double check to make sure that the prevention is completely disabled. If it is, please list all other modifications that you have installed. There might be some clash with registration-related modifications.

[ItsikN]

Well I believe that is the default option for registration prevention. Double check to make sure that the prevention is completely disabled. If it is, please list all other modifications that you have installed. There might be some clash with registration-related modifications.

OK, first, I prevented it just by marking "No Prevention" under the "Registration Prevention" segment, should I do anything else? maybe remove the usergroup id number from the "Prevention Usergroup" segment?

I'm using the following mods: Album Pictures - Forum Home, AME - The Automatic Media Embeder, PB Watermark Album Images, Quick Auto Image-Resize (Posts & Signature) and Watermark Attachments.

That's it.

[Kiros72]

Hmm. I don't see anything that could be affecting it. Could you enable verbose mode and copy the report next time it uses any sort of prevention method?

[ItsikN]

Will do.

Thanks.

[Matt Lathrop]

Could anyone get this working with FB Connect login? Or Kiros do you know a work around?

[David Bott]

Hello...

Silly question...A person has to log out and then log back in for the cookie to be set correct?

What I mean is, if a user has the REMEMBER ME box checked to remember them, the person gets auto logged into the site when they return. As such, it will not set the new cookie until they LOG OUT by clicking log out or clearing their cookies and then logging back in. (it does not just update upon return.)

I am asking for I just changed over from the other AE Detector and it also used IDStack. I did not want an issue so I changed my to something like MySettings. (Could I just use the old info in IDStack?)

Thanks

[David Bott]

SUGGESTION...

When a catch is made via IP, can you please include the host info name for the IP? It would help to determine if it may by a proxy for a company.

Also in the verbose info...it says by IP, but also could include the IP address again with the domain info.

Currently looks like... Caught by: IP Address

Could look like... Caught by: IP Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (Domain.com)

Looking forward to future advancements.

BTW...I ask for AVSForum.com is a very busy site with a lot of companies that come in. We see a lot of spammers and what have you as you may guess.

[ItsikN]

Hmm. I don't see anything that could be affecting it. Could you enable verbose mode and copy the report next time it uses any sort of prevention method?

Hey Kiros,

Today it happened again, this is the plot:
[ :: Verbose Information :: ]

[ Prevention Method Information ]

Selected Method: No Prevention
Prevention Usergroup: 4 (Found)
Primary Banned Usergroup: 8 (Found)

[ Cookie Information ]

The account-counting cookie (IDstack) was not found.

[ Capture Information ]

Caught by: IP Address

[ Verbose Messages ]

[ Dev Information ]

Verbose Message Bitfields: 0

[r2r]

Great mod! really useful, thanks! I have so many spammers sign up to my site, so it is really useful having somthing to prevent it.

[Kiros72]

Could anyone get this working with FB Connect login? Or Kiros do you know a work around?

I didn't know that the Facebook modification broke the modification. I'll have to download it to see if there is some kind of workaround. I might not get the chance to within the next couple of days. I'm working long hours and I'm struggling to get started with school, so I have little time on my hands.

Hello...

Silly question...A person has to log out and then log back in for the cookie to be set correct?

What I mean is, if a user has the REMEMBER ME box checked to remember them, the person gets auto logged into the site when they return. As such, it will not set the new cookie until they LOG OUT by clicking log out or clearing their cookies and then logging back in. (it does not just update upon return.)

I am asking for I just changed over from the other AE Detector and it also used IDStack. I did not want an issue so I changed my to something like MySettings. (Could I just use the old info in IDStack?)

Thanks

Well, just as in the older AE Detector, the cookie is set during login. Nothing happens during logout (in the modification, that is). The cookie is not cleared since it uses a separate cookie, but if I remember correctly, any cookie name that is prefixed with your vBulletin cookie prefix will also be cleared during logout. For instance, if you have your vBulletin cookie prefix set to vb_ and your account-counting cookie name is vb_IDstack, it would be cleared during each logout. However, I also think that I put in a warning system, so if you accidentally have the cookie prefix in your cookie name, it will let you know either in the settings panel or in the reports. I'm not completely sure where because it's been quite awhile since I worked on that specific code.

SUGGESTION...

When a catch is made via IP, can you please include the host info name for the IP? It would help to determine if it may by a proxy for a company.

Also in the verbose info...it says by IP, but also could include the IP address again with the domain info.

Currently looks like... Caught by: IP Address

Could look like... Caught by: IP Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (Domain.com)

Looking forward to future advancements.

BTW...I ask for AVSForum.com is a very busy site with a lot of companies that come in. We see a lot of spammers and what have you as you may guess.

Ah, a good suggestion. I'll add that into future versions. But as I've said in earlier words, I have very little free time, and my next version is planned to be a huge release with database functionality. I have a lot to add on, so it may not make it into the very next release, but I'm not even sure when that will be at this point in time. But nonetheless, tis a good suggestion and I'll be trying to implement it in the future.

Hey Kiros,

Today it happened again, this is the plot:
[ :: Verbose Information :: ]

[ Prevention Method Information ]

Selected Method: No Prevention
Prevention Usergroup: 4 (Found)
Primary Banned Usergroup: 8 (Found)

[ Cookie Information ]

The account-counting cookie (IDstack) was not found.

[ Capture Information ]

Caught by: IP Address

[ Verbose Messages ]

[ Dev Information ]

Verbose Message Bitfields: 0

That's quite odd. Not the verbose information alone, but coupled with the situation. I'm going to have to investigate this. If you would like me to, please contact me through PM with login details to your forums.

Great mod! really useful, thanks! I have so many spammers sign up to my site, so it is really useful having somthing to prevent it.

Thanks for the complement ^^
Glad I could help out a bit!

[maxie]

Working vb 3.8.3 without errors

[ibeteck]

I have been looking for somethign like this for a long time. Thank you, I have problems with people that are banned they end up creating new accounts. Lets see what they will do now ;).

[ACiD619]

Hey,

Paddern me, but where do I set the option to where the reports are posted?

Warning: require_once(DIR/madp/functions_madp.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user/domains/domain.tld/public_html/madp/prevention.php on line 61

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DIR/madp/functions_madp.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/user/domains/domain.tld/public_html/madp/prevention.php on line 61

I'd appreciate some help.

Many thanks.

[James Birkett]

I have my main user. I then created an account named Test which was detected:

A new account by the name of Test has been registered. The new account has been moved to the Prevention Usergroup.

Other recognized logins for this user are:
1. James

So it detected that. I then made Test 2, and that was detected based on the IP (I used Chrome's incognito so it didn't save/load cookies to test if IP was working) and it gave me:

A new account by the name of Test 2 has been registered with the IP address: xx.x.xxx.xx. The new account has been moved to the Prevention Usergroup.

Other users that registered with this IP address are:
1. Test

Why didn't it detect my main user (James) IP address and put that as a 2.?

I don't have Admins bypassing the check by the way, I disabled it for this test purpose.

[Kiros72]

Well it tracks the registered IP addresses. Since your main account was probably registered long before you installed my modification, it must have been registered with a different IP address (one that you had at the time of registration). When you registered the Test and the Test 2 accounts, you had the same IP address. That is the reason behind this seemingly peculiar incident :)

[Jasonv81]

I'm running VB3.8.2 and this plugin just totally jacked up my board!

I installed it and now every time I try to post it says my message is too short, so i created a new username and made it an administrator and then merged over my old administrator account into it now I can't access any of the administrator functions because I get this message:

Sorry, you don't have permission to access the administrative controls on this page.

If you need to access this page, ask your lead administrator to enable your permissions

for this page using the Administrator Permissions section of the control panel.

then i clicked on the link for Adminstrator Permissions and it says this:

Sorry, you are not allowed to edit administrator permissions.

If you think you should have permission to access this page, you will need to edit the

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] variable in the includes/config.php file.

To allow the administrators to access this page, edit the variable to include the user IDs

of those administrators should have access, separating each user ID with a comma, like

this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1,25,57';

To allow only a single administrator to access this page, simply add that user's ID with

no commas, like this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';

Heres the big problem:

1) i'm the only administrator....there is no other lead administrator
2) i can't access any of the functions to figure out what my newly merged user ID is!

FYI, this happened with the old AE detector once i installed VB3.8.2 but then when i created a new administrator account and merged the old one over it corrected the problem....now i'm getting this wierd error message i didnt get before.

PLEASE HELP

[yagane]

Hi kiros!!!

My recommendation:

Sometimes we need to share our info with new moderators, but we don't like to share the full stuff, like the Verbose Mode. So I think in put a secondary forum for reports without Verbose Mode.

Full reports go to Admin, secondary to Moderators.

I try to apply these changes modifying detection.php. But right now use on the main site the MADP for admin, and the AE detector for moderators. :(

Thanks!!! :D

[Kiros72]

I'm running VB3.8.2 and this plugin just totally jacked up my board!

I installed it and now every time I try to post it says my message is too short, so i created a new username and made it an administrator and then merged over my old administrator account into it now I can't access any of the administrator functions because I get this message:

Sorry, you don't have permission to access the administrative controls on this page.

If you need to access this page, ask your lead administrator to enable your permissions

for this page using the Administrator Permissions section of the control panel.


then i clicked on the link for Adminstrator Permissions and it says this:


Sorry, you are not allowed to edit administrator permissions.

If you think you should have permission to access this page, you will need to edit the

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] variable in the includes/config.php file.

To allow the administrators to access this page, edit the variable to include the user IDs

of those administrators should have access, separating each user ID with a comma, like

this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1,25,57';

To allow only a single administrator to access this page, simply add that user's ID with

no commas, like this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';


Heres the big problem:

1) i'm the only administrator....there is no other lead administrator
2) i can't access any of the functions to figure out what my newly merged user ID is!


FYI, this happened with the old AE detector once i installed VB3.8.2 but then when i created a new administrator account and merged the old one over it corrected the problem....now i'm getting this wierd error message i didnt get before.

PLEASE HELP

There's no reason why this modification should have totally jacked up your board. It sounds like you're running a poorly coded modification along-side it. One that is active during posting.

Nonetheless, it seems like you're in quite a situation, so I'll try to help as much as possible. You will need to be able to view the member list, so as long as it is enabled for members, you'll be okay. Just find your account by searching through the members. Whenever you find it, the link to your profile should contain your User ID. Once you get your ID, use it for what you were planning to.

That should do it, although I'm utterly confused as to why you would create a new account and merge your administrator account with it...

[Kiros72]

Hi kiros!!!

My recommendation:

Sometimes we need to share our info with new moderators, but we don't like to share the full stuff, like the Verbose Mode. So I think in put a secondary forum for reports without Verbose Mode.

Full reports go to Admin, secondary to Moderators.

I try to apply these changes modifying detection.php. But right now use on the main site the MADP for admin, and the AE detector for moderators. :(

Thanks!!! :D

Thanks for another useful suggestion yag! Although I'm starting my university classes now, so I'm still going to be pretty busy. But within the coming weeks, I'm going to resume work on new releases. Cheers :)

[cynthetiq]

suggestion: the forum post generated should be in the PM as a link, ala the reported post generates a thread, and then has a link in the email to the discussion.

otherwise great mod!

I just installed the Nexus connect mod and it worked via an IP detect, it didn't work as you explained above, and there was no cookie on that machine either. I was scratching my head wondering why it didn't work, but now it makes sense.

[Jasonv81]

There's no reason why this modification should have totally jacked up your board. It sounds like you're running a poorly coded modification along-side it. One that is active during posting.

Nonetheless, it seems like you're in quite a situation, so I'll try to help as much as possible. You will need to be able to view the member list, so as long as it is enabled for members, you'll be okay. Just find your account by searching through the members. Whenever you find it, the link to your profile should contain your User ID. Once you get your ID, use it for what you were planning to.

That should do it, although I'm utterly confused as to why you would create a new account and merge your administrator account with it...

UPDATE:

I found my userID and edited my includes/config.php file to have me listed as a superadministrator and it resumed all my administrator priviledges.

I still have the wierd problem of not being able post because it says my message is too short. When sending a PM I can type text in the PM and send it, but the person recieving it gets a blank message. Anyhow, here are my list of programs.....let me know if you think any of these run during posting.....keep in mind, this problem only occured when I installed the new version of AEdetector.

vBulletin 3.8.2
Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts' 1.9 Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts'
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics 4.5 Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters 1.3 Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters
Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes 1.8 Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes
Cyb - Top Posters In Month X 1.0 Cyb - Top Posters In Month X
Cyb - Visitors in Last X Hours 2.0 Cyb - Visitors in Last X Hours
Is Bot 1.0.0 Registration Time Check
Multiple Account Detection & Prevention 1.1.3 Detects multiple logins, prevents multiple registrations, and notifies the administration.
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.0.5 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads
vBSEO 3.3.0 vBulletin SEO
vBSEO :: Conditional Signatures 1.4.2 Add rel='nofollow' or disable signature conditioned to posting's length.
vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator 1.7 Generate a Google & Yahoo Sitemap for your Forums


I just tried Disabling every one of these mods and it did not fix the problem.....any thoughts? if you think you might be able to figure it out by looking at my board let me know and i'll PM you login details with admin priviledges.

[yagane]

I don't use:

Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters 1.3 Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters
Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes 1.8 Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes
Cyb - Top Posters In Month X 1.0 Cyb - Top Posters In Month X
Is Bot 1.0.0 Registration Time Check

All the others including the AE Detector are installed on my forum and works pretty well.

If I had this problem, I disable the Forum Plug in System, then I made a test, if works fine I should activated and test each one.

This kind of problems happens because you install a few mods and you didn't take the time to make test to check if all works fine. Maybe the problem is not on the mods, maybe you change a setting and you even remember.

Maybe this help you, maybe don't. Here is what I have installed on my forum and all works pretty well.
vBulletin - 3.8.4
Age Lock - 2.5 Pre Beta
All Albums - 2.5
AME - The Automatic Media Embeder - 2.0.2
Anime Lyrics - 1.2.0
Auto Delete/Move Thread After X days. - 2
Babylon - 1.2.0
Catalogo Temas - 1.2
Chief First Post - Every Page - 2.0.0
Custom Board Closed or Server Busy Message - 3.7.001
Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts' - 2.4
Cyb - Advanced Forum Rules - 4.0.2
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics - 6.6.1
Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count - 4.4
Cyb - ChatBox - 2.3
Cyb - Check If Already Posted - 1.6
Cyb - Login To User Account - 2.3
Cyb - Moderating Stats - 1.6.1
Cyb - PayPal Donate - 4.8.2
Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager - 2.5.1
Default User Text Formatting - 1
Enhanced Reputation Checks - 3.8.001
Extended reputation display - 3.8.001
Fake Community Statistics - 0.22
Find My Posts In A Thread - 3.8.003
Flashchat Integration - 3.7.005
Flashchat v4: Who is chatting (Add On) - 3.7.002
GARS - 2.1.9
General Information - 2.1.1
GTSmiliebox - Move Smilies Below Editor - 3.7.0.0
Hide Links From Guests - 1.32
Inactive Users - 3.8.001
Latest Blogs - 1
Members who are using Flashchat - 3.7.002
Members who have Posted - 3.8.002
Members who have Visited - 3.8.002
Members Who Registered Today - 1.0.1
Miserable Users - 3.8.001
MixPod Playlist MP3 Player in Profile - 1.5
Multiple Account Detection & Prevention - 1.1.3
Multiple Login Detector - 1.03
Post Thank You Hack - 7.4
Prevent DoublePosts - 3.8.004
ProvB - Answer Forums - 1.0.4P
Ralles Auto Thread Closing - 1.8
Real ip detection - 3.8.001
Redirect Thread to URL - 1.0.1
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads - 3.0.0
Sig Of The Week - 2
Sorky13 - RSS Feed Links - V1.0.3 - 1.0.3
TCattd - The Image Resizer - 1.2.8
Twitter - Flash en el Perfil - 1
Unknown Location - 1.0.2
Usergroup Allow HTML - 3.5.0
Usergroup Color Bar - 2.0.0
Username HTML Markup - 2
vB Dummy ACP - 1.0.0
vB Post Templates - 1.5.0
vB Templates - 1.0.0
vBadvanced CMPS - 3.2.0
vBadvanced Dynamics - 1.2.0
vBadvanced Links Directory - 3.2.0
vBCode table - 0.1.7.1
vBExperience - 3.8.3
vBExperience - Post Thank You Hack Integration - 1.1.0
vBExperience Arm of Law - 1.0.0
vBExperience Level - 5
vBSEO - 3.3.0
vBSEO :: Conditional Signatures - 1.4.2
vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator - 2.5
vBStatus - 3
vBulletin Blog - 2.0.0
vBulletin Project Tools - 2.0.0
Welcome Panel Template Rewrite - 3.0.5

[Kiros72]

UPDATE:

I found my userID and edited my includes/config.php file to have me listed as a superadministrator and it resumed all my administrator priviledges.

I still have the wierd problem of not being able post because it says my message is too short. When sending a PM I can type text in the PM and send it, but the person recieving it gets a blank message. Anyhow, here are my list of programs.....let me know if you think any of these run during posting.....keep in mind, this problem only occured when I installed the new version of AEdetector.

vBulletin 3.8.2
Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts' 1.9 Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts'
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics 4.5 Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters 1.3 Cyb - Attention Zero-Posters
Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes 1.8 Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes
Cyb - Top Posters In Month X 1.0 Cyb - Top Posters In Month X
Cyb - Visitors in Last X Hours 2.0 Cyb - Visitors in Last X Hours
Is Bot 1.0.0 Registration Time Check
Multiple Account Detection & Prevention 1.1.3 Detects multiple logins, prevents multiple registrations, and notifies the administration.
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.0.5 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads
vBSEO 3.3.0 vBulletin SEO
vBSEO :: Conditional Signatures 1.4.2 Add rel='nofollow' or disable signature conditioned to posting's length.
vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator 1.7 Generate a Google & Yahoo Sitemap for your Forums


I just tried Disabling every one of these mods and it did not fix the problem.....any thoughts? if you think you might be able to figure it out by looking at my board let me know and i'll PM you login details with admin priviledges.

Just like yag mentioned, I suggest you disable some modifications (primarily the ones having to do with posts) and see if you can pinpoint the problem.

[Jasonv81]

Just like yag mentioned, I suggest you disable some modifications (primarily the ones having to do with posts) and see if you can pinpoint the problem.

I've already DISABLED every single mod....including yours....and the problem is still there.

also, when i try to select a checkbox that selects multiple checkboxes beneath it, such as deleting all your PM's on a page, or selecting all the tables on Maintenance -> Repair/Optimize Tables......it doesnt select all the boxes, you have to check each individually.

My offer is still open if you want me to give you admin access to my board to see if you can figure it out. V-Bulletin's own tech support is not much help.

[yagane]

Looks like the problem is with the vBull Script or maybe in second stage with your server configuration.

In fact your main shoot is with vBull Tech Support, they are great, they fix my forum a couple of times.

I could guess, but I think your problem is with a bad upload of your vBull files:
You didn't read the instructions well and upload all in automatic mode,
One or some of the files is corrupt and need to be reuploaded
Maybe you should try to disable the AJAX functions.

Your server configuration needs a little tune up.If someone try to fix your problem he will need admin access and ftp access. Maybe even a copy of your vBull script, because they are labeled and is probably he needs to upload some files or all again.

If I were you, I try to update to 3.8.4, maybe that fix the problem, you have to reupload all the files in the process, if the problem persist ask vBull Support to take a look.

[Jasonv81]

Looks like the problem is with the vBull Script or maybe in second stage with your server configuration.

In fact your main shoot is with vBull Tech Support, they are great, they fix my forum a couple of times.

I could guess, but I think your problem is with a bad upload of your vBull files:
You didn't read the instructions well and upload all in automatic mode,
One or some of the files is corrupt and need to be reuploaded
Maybe you should try to disable the AJAX functions.

Your server configuration needs a little tune up.If someone try to fix your problem he will need admin access and ftp access. Maybe even a copy of your vBull script, because they are labeled and is probably he needs to upload some files or all again.

If I were you, I try to update to 3.8.4, maybe that fix the problem, you have to reupload all the files in the process, if the problem persist ask vBull Support to take a look.


the instructions i had for VB3.8.2 never said to upload in anything other than automatic mode.....if i upload 3.8.4 what mode should i upload in?

[willy888]

I INSTALLED it ok set the settings

How can I find already register members ips that have multiple accounts

[andrew67]

I just upgraded from 3.6.0 to 3.8.4 and removed the former AE detector and installed this one. All seems to be working fine , so thank you very much for a great product. Its very much needed on busy forums.

( Just posted to confirm no issues on 3.8.4 and to say thanks )

[andrew67]

I INSTALLED it ok set the settings

How can I find already register members ips that have multiple accounts

Wait for them to use the other account....you will be alerted when they do.

[pneo]

I apologise if this has already been answered, but there is a lot of posts to go through.

I've installed on 3.8.4 no problems. It all seems to be working fine except for one minor issue. If a user is "moderated", i.e. allowed by an admin, before they verify their email address, they are then normal registered users without having to follow the email link to verify their address. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the modification or vbulletin itself.

Thanks.

[KellyT]

going toset options now

[KellyT]

Hi:

I installed and set options then tried to test it. registered with 2 different email addresses and two different usernames and it didn't seem to recognize this. Any suggestions as to what I might do to get it to detect multiple accounts?

[glennybee]

Thanks for this mod.

I was wondering if this is possible:

Can the mod be set so that it checks for multiple accounts, and reports via a thread, but doesn't take any action against the new account, unless they previously had a banned account, then they should also be banned?

I understand that two separate members may use the same PC (genuinely) so I'm willing to overlook this. But if a member registers and they have previously been banned, I would like the new account banned too.

Is this possible with this configuration please?

Thanks! :)

[Huendin]

Thanks for this mod.

I was wondering if this is possible:

Can the mod be set so that it checks for multiple accounts, and reports via a thread, but doesn't take any action against the new account, unless they previously had a banned account, then they should also be banned?

I understand that two separate members may use the same PC (genuinely) so I'm willing to overlook this. But if a member registers and they have previously been banned, I would like the new account banned too.

Is this possible with this configuration please?

Thanks! :)

I just came across this mod, and it is funny that you should ask this, because I was wondering the same thing.

What I think would work would be to simply select the option "Move to Usergroup, Except Banned Users" and put your normal member usergroup number in the field of "Prevention Usergroup". This way, all multiple registrations will end up in the normal usergroup, anyways, except banned/previously banned(if you select "yes" to the field "Banned Account Check").

I'm going to install this right now, and experiment with it tomorrow. It looks promising :)

Also, I'd like to ask.. in the field "Primary Banned Usergroup", can you put multiple usergroups?

[Stormlilly]

This is an awesome Mod which has been a huge benefit to our forum. Do you know if it will be compatable with version 4.0?

[high6]

Can you add the option to check ips on login? I noticed when looking through the code that it only checks cookie for multiple login. Also could you have it report accounts that are being logged in from several ips? Or is there another mod that does this?

[TheInsaneManiac]

Great work dude. How well is the IP functionality though cause I'm afraid I will take all the AOL and other dial up users with it.

Also could you have it report accounts that are being logged in from several ips? Or is there another mod that does this?
I like this suggestion, since looking at each individual account in the AdminCP to see if they have logged in from multiple IPs is a hassle.

[TheInsaneManiac]

In all the PMs I am getting _'s...

[DeanLag]

In all the PMs I am getting _'s...

I'mgetting the same error. I believe its vBOptimise though. I disabling it and waiting for a report to show up.

[TheInsaneManiac]

I'mgetting the same error. I believe its vBOptimise though. I disabling it and waiting for a report to show up.
Even so... Kiros said PMs would work with VBoptimize...

You should just register a second account to test.

[Kiros72]

I'll try to pick up on questions and issues that I have left without support. Please be patient. I'm quite busy with real-life issues right now.

Thanks for understanding,
Kiros.

[Keesa]

This has begun kicking out new users with the username _

about 5 per day.

Any idea what might be causing that?

[Mangia]

This has begun kicking out new users with the username _

about 5 per day.

Any idea what might be causing that?

I'm getting a similar error. I tried creating test accounts and I get a new PM. But the PM just says "_". For Title, username,etc.

[TheInsaneManiac]

I'm getting a similar error. I tried creating test accounts and I get a new PM. But the PM just says "_". For Title, username,etc.
Same. I will probably revert back to the old AE Detector.

[Macindy]

There will be a vb4 version?

[nottsosoft]

I installed this and now my members can not sign on and I can not sign into admin cp. Please help....
Warning: Unknown([path]/madp/detection.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home2/momsinst/public_html/forum/madp/detection.php' (include_path='/usr/lib/php:.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home2/momsinst/public_html/forum/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

[nottsosoft]

never mind... I think I fixed it

[mindfrost82]

This has begun kicking out new users with the username _

about 5 per day.

Any idea what might be causing that?
Weird, I've been getting the same problem with AE Detector too.

[robdawg]

Still have the "_" problem for PMs and Threads.

Anyone find a fix for this with vBOptimize?

Really wish the vBOptimize guys would fix their plugin...

[profanitytalker]

Thank you for this hack. I am trying it out.

[Sadie Frost]

Has anyone who was having problems with it not posting threads anymore found a solution? :)

[Alfa1]

Is there any chance on a vb4 version?

[Shogo]

Is there any chance on a vb4 version?

+1
That's really a good mod!

[DaPro]

Definitely needed for 4.0!

[kontrabass]

If user xyz is tagged and a thread is created in the designated report forum, the next time he is tagged will this mod create a new thread or reply to his existing report thread?

[Leo Brazil]

No doubt at all, need for 4.0

[eridine]

Seems to work under vB 4.0.0 PL1

[PanterSi]

I installed this and now my members can not sign on and I can not sign into admin cp. Please help....
Warning: Unknown([path]/madp/detection.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home2/momsinst/public_html/forum/madp/detection.php' (include_path='/usr/lib/php:.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home2/momsinst/public_html/forum/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

I got the same error. Can anybody help?

p.s.
I found...wrong dir...

[Taurus1]

Man I hope someone can help me quickly because I can't go into my ACP after installing this. I get this error!!

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/thebull/public_html/forums/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

EDIT: O jeez, I am such an idiot.....nevermind......uploaded the files wrong....sorry! :erm::o

[Jman423]

I am trying to force a Prefix on the thread that is created, and I would assume that this is done through the detection.php file. Around what line of code would I look to hard code a specific prefix into this function?

Thank you

[TheInsaneManiac]

Uninstalled, no support, and does not work with VBOptimize, PM or Post.

[tuwebfacil]

Can someone confirm if this work with vb4.x ?

[scan-pa]

I have it installed on vB PS 4.01 and it works. Have had only 1 mysql DB error with this program so far.

[cbtrussell]

Man I hope someone can help me quickly because I can't go into my ACP after installing this. I get this error!!

Warning: require_once([path]/madp/detection.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/thebull/public_html/forums/madp/detection.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/includes/functions_login.php(185) : eval()'d code on line 3

For anyone else that gets this, be sure your madp directory is immediately below your forum root directory. The instructions say:
1) Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forum's root.
(If your forum's location is http://www.example.com/forums/, the root is /forums/)
So I'm sure some users are creating the madp directory as [forum dir]/upload/madp instead of [forum dir]/madp

[Reef Man]

Interested on the version for vb4.0.1

[cbtrussell]

I have this installed and am not getting any reports, even after deliberately trying to trip the detector. I have attached screenshots of our settings - am I missing anything obvious? Right now I only want to be notified for registrations & logins (no action should be taken).

The ignored usergroup ID's are our admins and mods (5,6). The only think I've really changed is the name.

If the settings look good, how should I go about troubleshooting this?

Thanks for any input!

[gnrx]

Hello.
I have installed this mod in my forum (VB 3.8), and works fine, but, and configured for, report multiple accounts in one subforum, and when I search in this subform (I use a nick that I view was reporter in this subforum) the search not works, not appears any search. Also, I use text of posts of this subforum for search and appears any search.
I configured this subforum for search only to a Administrators.

Thanks and a regards.

[Markos]

will this be upgraded to work in vb4 ???

[scan-pa]

works fine for me in vB PS 4.0.2pl1

[princeedward]

Confirmed:

vB 4.0.2 PL1 / (Good - Work- Double Account Detected) Same as usual....

thanks and enjoy guys....

;)

[Markos]

cool i should have just tried it in the first place LOL

[KURTZ]

Confirmed:

vB 4.0.2 PL1 / (Good - Work- Double Account Detected) Same as usual....

thanks and enjoy guys....

;)

glad to ear this :)

[-=Leb=-]

ill take the risk :)

[tiengnhat]

WHo can update to VBB 4.x for me?
Thanks you!

[pablete]

WHo can update to VBB 4.x for me?
Thanks you!

This work already on VB4. I've run on my board.

[ruchemist]

3.8.4 it does not work.

[cbtrussell]

I have this installed and am not getting any reports, even after deliberately trying to trip the detector. I have attached screenshots of our settings - am I missing anything obvious? Right now I only want to be notified for registrations & logins (no action should be taken).

The ignored usergroup ID's are our admins and mods (5,6). The only think I've really changed is the name.

If the settings look good, how should I go about troubleshooting this?

Thanks for any input!To answer my own question for the benefit of anyone who may run into the same issue, the problem was the plugin was set by default to send notifications as User ID #1, which does not exist on our forum. We changed the user ID to a valid user and everything started working as expected.

[CvP]

so this works perfectly even in vB4?
can someone confirm for 4.0.3?

kudos to the dev.

[pablete]

so this works perfectly even in vB4?
can someone confirm for 4.0.3?

kudos to the dev.

Yes, work on 4.0.3, i have run on it!

[Kiros72]

Argh. Uni hasn't been the best experience for me, but now that I'm out of school for the summer, hopefully I can pick this thing back up and see what I can do.

For all the people using, testing, and supporting this while I wasn't around to, thank you! :)

I'll try to make up for lost time, but please be patient.

[CvP]

thanks Kiros72.

it is already working fine for me (4.0.3).

if possible, please list the following things when reporting someone:
- the browser
- the screen resolution

[katie hunter]

Hi Kiros =)

nice modification! but i am having a small issue, my super mods can't access the reported members, the ones that are places in (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation usergroup, my super mods can't access their profile or even see it, they get this message:

xxx, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Is this a bug?

So i mean any reported member who gets moves to the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation usergroup and a super mod tries to access or view that member profile, they get this message and can't even see his page at all, only admin can.

[Kiros72]

That sounds like a permissions problem with your super moderators. I no longer have access to an up-to-date vBulletin site (not even for the 3 series), so I cannot direct you to the exact location, but try to look into the Usergroup settings inside your AdminCP.

You might have to either modify the settings for your super moderators or the "Users Awaiting Moderation" group. If you have further trouble with this, I'll need to handle it personally, so please PM me.

[iadmirevb]

I clearly can see two users with the same IP address, but the progrma doesn´t report it.

When someone logs in, does the program looks for a matching IP address?

Thanks

[Trek]

This is my error now. Hope someone can help.

Add this to the top of your config.php:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

This will disable ALL of your mods.

Log into the adminCP, uninstall/disable the mod you think is the problem.

Then comment the line out that you added above so it looks like:

//define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

And see if that fixes your problem.

[Andrei29]

Trek bro,

Thank u v much for helping me! i go try now. Sorry i think its my fault. This mod is meant for vb 3+ and i using vb 4. Sorry i hope can save it now.

May i know which part of the congfig.php should i add the line? Or just add at the top of the config.php ??

[Andrei29]

Hi trek bro!

you are my god saviour! Thank u my problem is solved! I am sorry i just realise i downloaded a mod which is meant for vb3 as i thought it was for VB4.

I am sorry to the developer Kiros bro as i think its my problem and not ur mod problem. Thank u very much trek bro!

[Kiros72]

Yes, thank you for the quick response Trek. Fish, please read that PM I sent you. More than half the time, the problem is that the administrator did not install it correctly (the physical files, to be exact). This has been confirmed to work on vBulletin 4, but please review the ReadMe file before attempting to install it again.

[Trek]

Yes, thank you for the quick response Trek. Fish, please read that PM I sent you. More than half the time, the problem is that the administrator did not install it correctly (the physical files, to be exact). This has been confirmed to work on vBulletin 4, but please review the ReadMe file before attempting to install it again.

Yeah, just an FYI, I have this working on vb4.03 as well. I was just concerned with helping him get his forums back online. =)

[Andrei29]

Thank u very much Kiros bro and Trek bro. I will try to follow the instructions set by kiros to install on my vb 4 again. Thank u for helping me!

[Megatr0n]

Is this hack ever going to be updated?

[Trek]

Is this hack ever going to be updated?

Updated how? It works fine on vb4.03 (and I assume 4.04).

[Kiros72]

Is this hack ever going to be updated?

I say, that's a damn good question. I'm currently without a vBulletin installation (3 or 4), so there's no way for me to test it, much less release it. I can code, but that's all I can do, and I'm not going to knowingly release an unstable version just so the version number is higher.

It currently works on all common vBulletin versions. But again, I'm without any kind of vBulletin installation or website, so I can't really test and debug any new features/optimizations I try to code for it. The database features would be very hard to work on without being able to test it...

So please, bear with me.

[latch]

I say, that's a damn good question. I'm currently without a vBulletin installation (3 or 4), so there's no way for me to test it, much less release it. I can code, but that's all I can do, and I'm not going to knowingly release an unstable version just so the version number is higher.

It currently works on all common vBulletin versions. But again, I'm without any kind of vBulletin installation or website, so I can't really test and debug any new features/optimizations I try to code for it. The database features would be very hard to work on without being able to test it...

So please, bear with me. I was just wondering if you were going to update this plug-in to work with V4? If you still do not have an active vBulletin installation, I will be more than happy to allow you access to mine, if this is allowed.

[CvP]

I was just wondering if you were going to update this plug-in to work with V4? If you still do not have an active vBulletin installation, I will be more than happy to allow you access to mine, if this is allowed.
umm..this plugin is working perfectly even on vB4.0.5.

[GSM_electronic]

It works on VB4, just not movig to desired usergroup (U.A.M.), now trying to check if autoban is working...

Is any valid VB4 genuine product of this kind available?

[NathanLedet]

It works on VB4, just not movig to desired usergroup (U.A.M.), now trying to check if autoban is working...

Is any valid VB4 genuine product of this kind available?

Need to know the same. This add-on has busted some true jackasses on our forum and we need it for 4.x

[NathanLedet]

umm..this plugin is working perfectly even on vB4.0.5.

Awesome :)

Disregard my prior post (shoulda read first, i guess) - I will download and test it out.

[Megatr0n]

Did you get my PM?

[NathanLedet]

Did you get my PM?

You who? If me, no.