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.

[Forum-Germany]

The hack works with version 3.7.4? Should we make any changes so that it works smoothly?

[flashwave]

Works great on 3.7.4!

Many thanks!

[intruder]

It doesn't work on google chrome browser.

Installed. Thanks

[seanadl]

Does this work with vbulletin 3.8? I have an older version of the AE detector installed and want to upgrade it this works with the newer vbulletin...

[TheArve]

Thanks for this,, really appreciate ur time taken,

CHeers

thearve

[Videx]

Originally Posted by seanadl

Does this work with vbulletin 3.8?

Mine is - I've gotten a few triggers since updating to 3.8.

[scratchit]

downloaded this one and then seen the later version and installed that ty for your efforts

[NetRover]

Originally Posted by Videx

Mine is - I've gotten a few triggers since updating to 3.8.

I'm still getting plenty of reports for those sneaky users with multiple accounts.

Working fine on 3.8.2

[Crystal Shards]

Can we this to work with "Check Version"?

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Crystal Shards

Can we this to work with "Check Version"?

You've asked that in 5 threads. What is CHECK VERSION? Is this the name of a mod, or an option within a mod? Or are you talking about the product option where it can check for different versions of vB? If the latter, it works from 3.5 to 3.8.2.