Who might this New User be?

Hiyas,

When a new user registers your board, this hack analyzes his email, password, ip address and isp (ranged ip) against existing board members and produces a sorted list with probabilities about who this new user might be. (See screenshot below). This list will be emailed to you with new user notification mail. (The probabilities can be modified by you so it's you who decide how matched results are sorted and ranked, dont blame me!)

Tested and will work better in relatively smaller boards (less than 3000 members). If you have a small board, this hack may help you a bit to track and pinpoint existing users if they re-register with different usernames. For large boards, IMO it's pointless to track new users anyway..

As far as I know it will work with ANY vbulletin version so feel free to try. Installation is very easy, actually 2 simple steps and will take you 2 minutes to apply..

If they change their both ip, isp, password and email, the hack cant get them, yeah I know! This is the best we can do with computer technologies. If you have higher expectations and demands, you may regard consulting a "Seer"..

If you liked this hack, I suggest checking Jawelin's nice Paranoid dupe user buster when moderating Hack too. They make a good couple and I use them both.

Click Install button, if you installed the hack, thank you!

Enjoy! \=^))

Logician

[Jawelin]

Originally posted by Logician

@Jawelin: To add such a feature, add:

PHP Code:

if (${$result}[probability]>X) {$alert_tick=1;} 


Replace X with your probability you want to check.

Now if a user's possibility of being another user is more than X%, then hack will flag the variable $alert_tick and by checking it in register.php, you can make the script send you email notification.
[...]
Hope that helps..

Thank you very much for this extension.
Till now, I never found users matching more than 50%, and think - for test purposes - i'll try to lower that value.
Thanks again.

Bye

Will this work on existing members who have registered or just new members?

[Logician]

Originally posted by mark@sb.ws
Will this work on existing members who have registered or just new members?

checks just new members against existing members' data..

[FWC]

Originally posted by Logician

checks just new members against existing members' data..

Yes, but it is a very effective troll detector. I have a couple who can't figure out how I get them banned or on moderation before they can even post.

[NSeXcellent]

I installed this, and it seems to have worked fine. My first new member to sign up after this is installed, emailed me their information, but for the probability part, all I got was:
WHO MIGHT THIS NEW USER BE?
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# | PROBABILITY | USER..| ID.|....EMAIL........|.MATCHES..................
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[email] => indicates user has the same email with this new user
[password] => indicates user has the same password with this new user
[IP] => indicates user has the same IP address with this new user
[ISP] => indicates user is from the same ISP with this new user. That is, their IP range is same. Eg. 195.100.200.XXX etc..

Any idea what I may have forgotten?

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

nice hack

[Logician]

Originally posted by NSeXcellent
I installed this, and it seems to have worked fine. My first new member to sign up after this is installed, emailed me their information, but for the probability part, all I got was:
WHO MIGHT THIS NEW USER BE?
----------------------------
# | PROBABILITY | USER..| ID.|....EMAIL........|.MATCHES..................
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any idea what I may have forgotten?

Good news: this means the new user might be nobody!

If his ip, email, password, isp does not match that of any existing user, this list will be blank. So everything is ok, this is no bug..

But if you want to second my word, go register yourself as a new user and use your admin password and check what hack will return to you..

Logician

[nemesis01]

Installed, works perfectly, very useful to me.

Good stuff. :bunny: :bunny: :bunny: :bunny: :banana:

[NSeXcellent]

hahaha... thanks... nice hack!

[marc49]

Originally posted by Logician

checks just new members against existing members' data..

Is it possible to even have the ability to check existing members? I realize it would probably have to be a whole seperate hack, but would it be something that would be fairly easy for you guys to do?

By the way, I love this hack, I think it's one of the best on vb.org.