Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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Same plug-in found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125871

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases of vBulletin.

If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.

Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.

You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.

New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.

Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.

Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.

I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.

To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.

1.0.3
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. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username

Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.

1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
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. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option

1.0.0
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Initial release.

[dimab]

Originally Posted by Sciby

I've installed this on v3.7.3PL1, and it... semi-works... like most other folk.

Like Videx said, when you're testing, once it's triggered and pm'd you once, it won't do it again, so relogging your test accounts over and over won't do jack.

I still don't feel 100% about trusting this thing, especially since it only triggers the one time until cookies are cleared. I'd rather have it ping every time it gets a positive. Maybe one day I'll look in the code... but not today.

i think you hit the nail on the head. the system is working. i think everyone missed the part where it only works once when the cookie has been placed. I think it should continue to work each time. Once i cleared the cookies, tested again, it worked.

I would use this as a guide, and double check with other tools.

works on 3.7.1

[Videx]

<i>I</i> didn't miss that part. I vaguely remember when it was added, back before thread starting was possible, because it would spam your inbox with dozens of reports from the same people.

What's maddening is this just makes it harder to test. Since the mod only works intermittently, and thus needs to be tested constantly on slower boards, or when first installed, it's a pita that one has to be aware of.

[jambo_1969]

Originally Posted by Videx

I didn't miss that part. I vaguely remember when it was added, back before thread starting was possible, because it would spam your inbox with dozens of reports from the same people.

What's maddening is this just makes it harder to test. Since the mod only works intermittently, and thus needs to be tested constantly on slower boards, or when first installed, it's a pita that one has to be aware of.

It's running on my board, which gets 100K visits per day off around 7K unique visitors, and IS working flawlessly...

I'm even getting repeat "business" from members until I put their id's into the safe list.

Since install and realising the issue with the id's being required for the Alert and PM, I've had no issues, and every time I test it with test id's it works....

I wish I could explain why yours is intermittent.....have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling it again ?

[Videx]

I wish I could explain why yours is intermittent.....have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling it again ?

Oh yes. To no effect. I have two vb boards (both now 373pl1). It stopped working on 'vb1' but continued on 'vb2' for a while. Then it stopped on vb2 also. Then a couple weeks ago it suddenly started working again on vb1. Still off on vb2.

I did absolutely nothing to restart it this time on vb1, and I'm unaware of any changes made to our shared server. No new mods or updates were installed. Most puzzling.

[slickdawg]

installed and nominated !! I've needed this !!!!

[StormBreaker]

Installed, that`s a very useful cookie

[Darkslayer2014]

So far I'm liking this! Thanks

[Alfa1]

I have searched the different threads of this mod, but can't find an solution to the following:

• How can I change the thread title, so that it shows all accounts that tripped the detector?

It seems to be hardcoded in the plugin:

PHP Code:

$subject = $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] . " tripped AE detector"; 


• How can I make posts about the same accounts go in one thread, instead of it causing multiple threads?

I've seen a lot of requests for info about this.

[Videx]

I gotta admit, now that both of my detectors are working and making new threads, it might be nice to just make a single thread.

But wouldn't that have to include some check to make sure the thread didn't get too long? And if it automatically split the thread at some point, wouldn't that kil your subscription? I dunno, maybe way more trouble to implement than it seems at first.

[taz112768]

Thanks Apprciated