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.

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?

Will do.

Thanks.

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

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

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.

Hey Kiros,

Today it happened again, this is the plot:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Working vb 3.8.3 without errors

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 ;).

Hey,

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

I'd appreciate some help.

Many thanks.

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

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 :)

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

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

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...

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I INSTALLED it ok set the settings

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

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 )

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

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.

going toset options now

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Even so... Kiros said PMs would work with VBoptimize...

You should just register a second account to test.