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=107566

There are no differences as this plug-in works with both 3.5 and 3.6 versions 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.

[Carlos2]

Hi friends, i translate to spanish the english phrase in admincp of the pm but still appears in english. Anybody knows why?

I means the phrase XX seems to have multiple personalities...

[mistyPotato]

Hello,

I have had the Multiple Login Detector installed now for several weeks and the only detection I have been able to get is my own test.

I have a small forum with about 1000 members and only several hundred active members.

Is this about par for the course with this size a forum?

Thanks

[mistyPotato]

Originally Posted by dosadno

Installed, and it was workin just fine, but now it stoped workin, I dont know the reason!!!
I have tried to reinstall, but there is no efect...
Any idea?

Did you get it working again?

[Traxdata]

no problem using this hack with vb 3.7.0. beta2! great

[Airkat]

Anyone ever get the issue of it not automatically posting threads fixed?

[biggeorge]

My Multiple Account Registration Prevention notified me that someone was attempting to register an account with the same IP as another (3) members. No big deal... the MARP always works perfect on our forum. The strange thiing was that when I looked for the username in the AdminCP, the user didn't exist! And when I looked at the profile url linked from the MARP notification the userid was 0 (zero)... but it displayed a message saying "This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view."

I'm running 3.6.8

Any ideas on this?

[Airkat]

Maybe it prevented them from registering?

[Doctor Death]

A member of my board had modified her router/LAN settings. Now I am getting messages that "Angelic and Angelic Appear to be using the same computer"...

Any idea why it would use the same user twice in the detector?

[biggeorge]

Originally Posted by Airkat

Maybe it prevented them from registering?

No. They are allowed to register by they're tossed into a FIREWALLED (limited access) usergroup.

I've never seen this happen before so I was a little concerned.

[Guy Betten]

I just installed this and it is great! I had a user who requested to be removed, for what ever reason and I removed him Sunday. Today I get home from work and this person has not only reregistered, but twice, lol. I actually let him back in, now i can watch and see what his interest is. He was making great posts before, so I was confused, JPT.