Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Auto-Moderate Evading Banned Members (when they make new accounts)

Banned Members Filter by Rafael Lopez
03/10/2009 (m/d/y)

CURRENT VERSION: 2.0

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLICK INSTALL!

This mod will try and block banned members from evading their ban through making a new account.'

::: CHANGE LOG :::
v1.0 - original release
v2.0 - First update (released: 04/08/09 (m/d/y))
--Mod now sets cookies on login which are not destroyed on logouts. These cookies can be used to help catch evaders
--Mod now supports notification through:
----New threads
----Private Messages
--You may choose whether you want users to be moderated or auto-banned depending on how they are detected.



Here's how it works:

Upon registration, vBulletin will search for all the users who have used the IP that the current person registering is currently using.
It will then check if any of those users are in the BANNED usergroup.

If there are no user matches, or if no user matches are in the banned group then the plugin will continue to check for set cookies which belong to banned users.

If IPs match, then it either auto-bans the account or it moderates it. This is set through vBulletin Options. If IPs are set to
moderate and not auto-ban then the plugin will check for cookies as well - if it finds a cookie belonging to a banned user and you have it set to auto-ban on cookies
then it will AUTO-BAN the new account even though it had found an IP which is set to moderate. Higher punishment "wins".

This has the POTENTIAL to slow down registration dramatically on forums with a LOT of posts. For reference, it does not add any noticable time for my forum which has about half a million posts. So you should probably be okay.


::: Installation :::

Extract product-moderate_user_if_banned.xml
Upload product-moderate_user_if_banned.xml by going to ADMIN CP --> PLUGINS AND PRODUCTS --> MANAGE PRODUCTS --> ADD/IMPORT PRODUCT
If you are upgrading then you should set "over-write" to yes.

And you're done!


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[HolyKiller]

Originally Posted by Peoples1

Banned Members Filter by Rafael Lopez
This addon make a bug, if you want to create a new Thread Prefixes.
its not possible to build new prefixes !!!!

Negative ... on 3.8.2 works everything fine.

But now i looking for similiar hack for vB 4.x

[horussjr]

update for 4.0?

[final kaoss]

This let a member with the same ip address re register and I have it set to ban ip's that are banned.

*he recieved an infraction that lasts for 24 hours & was able to re register with same ip

[Hell Bomb]

When the user is banned does it check all other accounts for the same IP or does this only do this when they register?

[jesus likes pie]

I was unaware that this did not work for 4.x (though I suppose it should have been rather obvious, haha)

Is there a mod that does the same? If not, I'll see if I can port it but I have yet to do a 4 series mod so I don't know if the infrastructure changed.

I don't really have a forum anymore though so I've been inactive. I have an expired license which should let me run 4.0.2 I think.

I'll also look into the bug mentioned in #33.

@hellbomb: this mod does not check anything when banning a user (yet, anyways...)

[jesus likes pie]

Originally Posted by segwayon

Question: The mod uses the IP address of the banned users when they 1st registered? Or on the day they were banned?

I believe it checks the IP address that the user had when he registered and then EVERY IP he ever made a post/thread with.

Made this a while ago so I don't remember off hand. Pretty sure that's correct though

Originally Posted by tommyturnage

Anyone know if this is working properly now?

Pretty sure this has always been working on vB3.5.x (designed for 3.8 but I'm sure 3.5 should work too...)

[SEW810]

Originally Posted by HolyKiller

Any info about vB4 version? This hack is excelent and help me alot

Thanks for any information

yeah, this mod is just awsome !!!!!!!!
Waiting for vb 4.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.


Thnx

[Sonic625]

Works great, The only thing I can see so far that it doesnt do is detect users who have been banned from infractions.

[SEW810]

It must do that Sonic, the hack looks for user group ID, ip, and other things.
Banned form infractions or not doesn't matter

Regards !!!!

[rickrichards82]

i had a problem with a troll a few years ago that would use IP proxy sites to get around detection. he was able to post a few disruptive messages each time before i could be certain it was him and could ban him. eventually i realized he used the same password all the time so i would compare all new users passwords to the encrypted password the troll was using. he couldn't figure out how i was able to ban him before he even posted anything and left the forum shortly later.

you might want to add a feature to this mod where users who have the same pass as a known troll need to be authorized before they can post... or something like that. its not fool proof since two people might pick the same pass just out of shear luck but the odds of this are slim.