Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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.

[Jayphen]

Originally Posted by vampireus

Can you make the option fot it to post in one thread, I think it's easier to keep track than read every PMs separately, title of PM only show one user so we don't know what all inside until we read it

123. Plus I'm sick of having to delete tonnes of PMs all the time Great mod though.

[Gunshot]

I haven't read all the posts here

but I have one HUGE problem with this hack

It works fine

but everytime it triggers the alarm....the offenders IP is added to my IP list

now my partners are wondering if I'm running a massive account duplicating ring




pretty funny

but could cause some serious trouble between staff

[Milesian]

A member recently tripped the detector and it made an alert thread in the specified forum. But it simply said a mutiple log-in was detected. No ip addie or mention of who the other account belonged too. Is this right?

[Milesian]

Even weirder is the fact that the member who tripped the detector doesn't exist in the memberlist :S

[MPDev]

the offenders IP is added to my IP list

Once again, we don't do anything we IP addresses in this mod; so it's not coming from this mod.

[Tulsa]

I've had two alerted that it's shown only a single user name?

[Gunshot]

Originally Posted by MPDev

Once again, we don't do anything we IP addresses in this mod; so it's not coming from this mod.

I share the same IP with every user that has ever tripped this hack....

the automatic thread is started with my username and the IP for that post is the offenders IP......thus

I retain their IP on my list

its pretty cut and dry Dude


not a problem for me......but it could be for others

[katholic]

Gunshot I have noticed the exact same thing. It isn't a problem for us but it is happening.

[MPDev]

Ah, okay, I see what you are saying; I was a little confused by the "my IP list", but I see now you are talking about the "view ip addresses" of vB.

Nice to know, something I'll see if there is a workaround for.

[Gunshot]

Originally Posted by MPDev

Ah, okay, I see what you are saying; I was a little confused by the "my IP list", but I see now you are talking about the "view ip addresses" of vB.

Nice to know, something I'll see if there is a workaround for.

cool


maybe even just a warning in the install file would do