Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple Account Detection & Prevention

It happens all of the time. Some members will make multiple accounts to back their own opinion or get an extra vote in a poll. Here's a modification that will detect and prevent multiple accounts, as well as notify the administration about multiple accounts. Inspiration for this modification came from the work of MPDev (creator of the Multiple Account Login Detector) and randominity (creator of the Multiple Account Registration Prevention). This is basically a combination of those two modifications but with new and improved functionality.

This is not an update to the "Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector)" nor is it an update to the "Multiple Account Registration Prevention." If you have either one of these (or both of them) installed, you should uninstall them before installing this modification.

With the initial release of Multiple Account Detection & Prevention, I believe that I have fixed previous bugs/complications as well as improved the efficiency and logic of the code. This is my first publicly released modification. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions!

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

Unfortunately, I cannot give support right now. I may be able to help periodically, but until my schedule yields some more free time, I won't be much support. Please check back in a week or two.

Basic Details
File Edits: None
Template Edits: None
New Files: 6
Hooks/Plugins: 3
Global Phrases: 36
Install Time: 2 Minutes or Less
Install Difficulty: None, Very Easy

Features and Settings
- Login Detection
- Registration Prevention (Multiple Methods)
- Ignore Child Accounts
- Ignored Users
- Ignored Usergroups
- Ignored ISPs
- Prevention Usergroup
- IP Address Based Prevention
- Extended IP Address Prevention
- IP Address Time Inclusion
- Banned Account Check
- Primary Banned Usergroup
- Cookie Expiration Time
- Cookie Refreshing
- Cookie Name
- Cookie Reset
- Multiple Account Reporter
- Reports via PM
- PM Report Recipients
- Reports via New Thread
- Forum for Report Threads
- Verbose Mode
- BB Codes: LIST, URL, CODE

How it Works
With every newly recognized login/registration, an account-counting cookie is set (or added onto) with the member's User ID. Depending on the settings, Multiple Account Detection & Prevention will analyze the cookie during login/registration to see if there are any multiple accounts.

Login Detection offers cookie-checking and reporting. Registration Prevention offers the same thing, plus more advanced features. First of all, when it prevents an account from registering, it actually moves the registrant to the Prevention Usergroup so that the administration can review the case. This also allows for customized privileges for recognized multiple registrants. Registration Prevention also has IP address detection which finds out just as much information about users. Depending on an administrator's preference, this modification can also reban a new registrant if one of their previous accounts has been banned. In fact, if the administration wishes, multiple registrants can simply be denied registration all together.

Whenever there is a detection/prevention, the modification will report the information to the administration through private messages, a new thread, or both (depending on settings). The Multiple Account Reporter can be any valid user.

Known Issues
- vB Optimise users: Reporting via thread seems to get messed up by vB Optimise, so try reporting via PM instead.
- PhotoPost vBGallery users: The registration handling appears to not work properly when PhotoPost vBGallery is enabled.

From what I can tell, these known clashes have been caused by the other modification's coding. The author of vB Optimise will not even work with me to fix it. Until they improve their coding, I'm not sure if I can do anything about these issues. As far as I know, administrators that do not use the above modifications will not have any problems.

Installation / Upgrade
Unzip the package (madp.zip), upload the files to your forum location, and import the product file (allow overwrite if upgrading). Please read the ReadMe.txt file that is packaged with the modification for more information.

Please remember to mark this modification as installed if you use it!
If you like it, nominate it for the Mod of the Month!

Thank you!

[BadgerDog]

I have directly asked Deceptor three times now for help in trying to resolve the conflict between my mod and vBOptimize. Have I received any messages from Deceptor or DBTech asking for my cooperation in resolving this? No. Any responses to MY requests? Nope.

Hmmm... we're running vBOptimize Pro along with Kiros72's mod here on vBulletin 4.1.3 and it works fine, so perhaps there's something else wrong?

Regards,
Doug

[Trek]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Hmmm... we're running vBOptimize Pro along with Kiros72's mod here on vBulletin 4.1.3 and it works fine, so perhaps there's something else wrong?

Regards,
Doug

Same here, and have been for over a year.

Not sure what the deal is, maybe we just don't have something setup that's tripping this, but... I dunno, it works for me as well.

[Alfa1]

Could be related to vb3. Like others I had to uninstall vboptimise last year.

[princesspepper]

Can anyone confirm if this mod is working on 4.1.5? I currently have the AE Detector, but was going to change to this, as we have a group of troublesome members that I want to catch in the act.

[oldfan]

I have this running on 4.1.5 , works great

[Mathsman]

thank you so much.

[Jman423]

Is there anyone that can help me figure out how to hard code a prefix onto the thread that is started when the system is reporting an offender?

[Jman423]

No one can help me figure out how to add a prefix to threads generated by this product?

[Moshe1010]

Kiros72 Do you still support this mod?

I appreciate your work on this mod, but it seems like many people have problems with the forum reporting option. I don't have VB Optimize, and I can't get it to work. I do get PM's, but it is more comfortable to get the detections in a private forum (which I set its ID in the mod options, but it doesn't work.)
Please advice,
Thank you.

[Jman423]

It's pretty obvious that the author is not supporting this anymore, even though it is marked as supported.