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!

[Rideharder]

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

[Zagis]

Originally Posted by Rideharder

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

PHP Code:

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]

Originally Posted by Zagis

Disable all the plugins by adding this into your confing.php file right after <?php

PHP Code:

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]

Originally Posted by Rideharder

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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.

Originally Posted by Halx

Multiple login detected from gg44444.

Other recognized logins for this user are:

1. k55555
2. kkk555
3. k666666
4. kkk6666
5. g7777777
6. gg88888

[ :: 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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.