Hi Kiros , i upgraded it to the newest version and also replaced everything but the problems is still on the new registration

When i turn on the IP IP Address Prevention , it give same error for new members who try to register.
Do i need to edit something?

Here, Leb. Upload this prevention.php to your /madp/ directory.

This patched up version of the prevention.php does not have the stripos() function call, so it will not glitch on servers with PHP4 installed.

Thank you very much kiros. I will upload the file later and then i will let you know <3

Yagne, could you attach a screenshot of the report?

I see that if a user makes a NEW usermame, that hte NEw one is placed in the prevention usergroup... whath appens with the user names already made? can those be moved as well?

Unfortunately, no. I'm not sure if I could add that feature in just because that could be very dangerous. Say if you were the only administrator of your forum (or the other administrator was on a long-term vacation). If you forgot to put your User ID or Usergroup ID in the ignored lists and you decided to make a test account, you would be moved from the Administrator Usergroup to the Prevention Usergroup.

It's better to do this kind of thing by hand. I like to contact the person via his or her original account because they sometimes have a good reason to make a second account (such as a family member or friend wanting an account).

Besides, that could actually lead to exploits. I won't go into detail, but trust me, it's better not to have such a feature.

Version 1.1.0 is now available.

I'll have some updated screenshots up soon.

look great and useful...but...is this going to work on vB 3.6.8 version? hope so...

best regards and happy holidays...

;)

It's probably compatible with vBulletin 3.6.x, but no one has confirmed it yet. My advice is to give it a shot if you'd like to, but backup your database before installing it (just in case).

hx for the excellent update. I'm testing it right now, so far everything seems to be running good :)

hi kiros,is this the one in which ban users wont be allow to register?i see the attachment.lets say if i choose move to usergroup except ban user.will this option disallow ban user to register? thanks

i am down with this mod of yours so i am gonna put it for MOTM

Awesome stuff.

Yes, "Move to Usergroup, Except Banned Users" means that regular multiple registrants will still be registered and moved to the Prevention Usergroup, but those registrants that have one or more banned accounts will be completely disallowed from registration - they will receive an error message and no account will be created. "Disallow Registrants, Except Banned Users" is the opposite, where banned users will be rebanned and everyone else that tries to register a multiple account will be disallowed entirely.

Though remember, you must have the Banned Accounts Check enabled and the Primary Banned Usergroup set correctly if you want this modification to correctly identify banned users.

Hello.

Since the update I have 2 options under Settings. Is it correct?

Thank you. :)

Yes, you should have:

Multiple Account Detection & Prevention Options
Multiple Account Detection & Prevention Reporting

The first one controls the main internal operations of the modification, while the other one has all of the reporting settings.

thnx alot kiros for the effort,i m gonna install update n check it out

i dont know if its a problem or i did something wrong in setting.it is showing in the pm notification the same user's name twice

Multiple login detected from ******.

Other recognized logins for this user are:

1. ******

its showing from and other the same name,i thought if same person logs in with a different name then it will report it.any idea,thnx

by the way i did change the cookie name

Could you please enable Verbose Mode, then copy and paste the report here? If you want to censor out the usernames, please just rename them separately (i.e. SomeGuy1, SomeGuy2, etc.) so I can tell if it's identifying reporting incorrectly. You can also censor your Cookie Name if you'd like.

Thanks for this Bro...it looks that it's working okay to my vB 3.6.8 PL2 at this moment...just tested it to my own account...want to test it once more to any of my staff to make sure...

one more thing...
can you throw some point clue about good vb option setup to make it work "no auto action to any users being caught"...but just only to detect them and report to forum report area...i just want to do the action manually maybe...if i'm going to banned that user or not...

looks really great mod...million thanks and happy new year...

;)

Edward, just enable Silent Mode and you should be good to go. It won't matter what Prevention Method you use - as long as it's activated. Same thing with the Login Detection, but that currently only has two options anyway.

Right, so just make sure Silent Mode is enabled, as well as both the Login Detection and an active Prevention Method. It should then just report everything to you rather than taking automated actions.

Wow, I was out a few days and looks like the mod have a lot of activity.

I'll install the new version, as soon I have the reban problem again I put the report based on the new update, (of course if the problem presents again.)

Best regards and thanks for the hard work Kiros!!! :D

NOTE: ---

will do that thnx

I assure you, the Cookie Name feature can be used. It's very unwise to use a Cookie Name that vBulletin uses. Plain and simple, the name shouldn't be leeched off of vBulletin. Of course, that would create conflicts. If you named it something like that, then that was your mistake. Please don't tell my modification's users to not use the feature.

works great sofar thanks for this mod

hi,kiros i did enable verbose and i noticed yesterday one of my user was logged in with 2 different names but the ip was same,mod didn't notified me about it.anyway this is not my big concerns.the onlything i am concern about is if the banning option will be working to prevent ban users to register.the rest i can live with.thanks

I installed the script uncorrectly :O and now i cant login and im getting this error at login:


I need help, please dont tell me i cant fix it :(

The Login Detection does not look for IP addresses - the Registration Prevention does.

It looks like you didn't correctly upload the contents of the 'upload' folder. Make sure you do this so the /madp/ folder will be in your forum root (i.e. www.example.com/forum/madp/).

Ah, sorry. Though in English, you literally told everyone to not use the feature. The feature works just fine. If you name it to something that messes up a site feature, then that cookie is already being used somehow. That means that it's being leeched off of vBulletin in someway. In that case, just don't use it. I recommend something like "_agent" or "_type" (without quotes) or anything similar, as this wouldn't be seen as anything that would track logins/registrations.

ahhh..okay...thanks for the support info...

Voted For MOTM for January 2009!!!

;)

does it work on 3.6.x?

In theory, it should. I haven't heard anyone complain. I'll be doing some official testing on vBulletin 3.5 through 3.8 within the next few days.

Just to let you all know, I'm working on the next major version, which will include some new methods for the Login Detection (much like Registration Prevention), IP address detection for logins, administrator protection, a settings diagnostic tool, some recommendations on how to get the best out of this modification, and anything else I can fit in.

I will also do further testing with different vBulletin versions. Though as of right now, this seems to work just fine on versions 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.

Please let me know about bugs or requests as soon as possible so I can fix up the next version to be purely awesome.

Right now when I use post the report via new thread it creates a new thread under a super admins account...which increases his post count. Is there a way to change the username?

ok i enable d the verbose and everything looks fine so far.and now its giving the right info when 2 users login with the same ip.so far so good,thnx:D

Sure thing. If you want to change the reporter to be a different user, go to the reporting options, and change the "Multiple Account Reporter" to the ID number of the user that you want to report everything. If you want to keep the user but just change the username, then you can always edit the user's username within your AdminCP.

Oh, that's good to hear! :) There shouldn't be any difference in the detection method whether verbose mode is on or not, so maybe the issue was just a fluke.

I've just encountered this for the first time. I have a listing of two users possibly being the same but the last three IP numbers are different: XX.XXX.XXX.230 vs XX.XXX.XXX.132. Is this plugin foolproof or can it make a mistake in detection?

Hmm... That hasn't happened to me.

Do you have access to phpMyAdmin?

I do, yes.

Alright. I have just reread your post and I'm actually wondering exactly what you meant. Did you mean that there was a detection of matching IP addresses, but the IP addresses didn't actually match? If so, prep and run this SQL:

Be sure to replace the %table_prefix% with the table prefix (like 'vb_' or 'vbulletin_' or something else) that your database uses for vBulletin. Replace %problem_ip% with the IP address that was reported as the matching IP address.

After you run it, you should get 2 results if it's actually working properly.

If you meant that you wanted it to catch the incident, but it didn't, then there's not much that I can do for that. The entire IP address of everyone is checked because there can be hundreds of people that have a matching first three numbers (i.e. 124.78.20.100 could be the same person as 124.78.20.201, but it could also be someone else entirely). Checking only the first three numbers would make for a lot of false positives over the years.

hi I've had this on my forum for a few weeks now and it just detected 3 users 2 of them r banned but it seems it didn't ban or send to the specific user group but the prob is this user was registered before i installed this and this must have been the first time hes logged in since so dose this send to specific user group or ban them if they were all ready registered