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.

[accessdeniedzzz]

Very good :up:
just a question in case that user delete the cookies the detector will no more detect him!
is there possibility to make the cookies MySql Based ?

[MPDev]

I've never heard of a "MySQL based cookie"....

[amcd]

MPDev, it doesnt work on my forum for some reason, just wondering if any of these hacks on my forum are hindering from your hack to work... can you please help. thx

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[MPDev]

I wouldn't know since I'm not using most of those hacks.

[Lapsetur]

it's not working with 3.6.5

[Dream]

This sounds like a great idea, I'm testing it out, thanks.

[MPDev]

Originally Posted by Lapsetur

it's not working with 3.6.5

If you read above you, many would disagree.

[Lapsetur]

You mean the plugins I am runnin

Custom Links 1.6.0

Members who have visited the forum 4.41

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.0.5

Top 'X' Stats by InfiniteWebby 1.2.2

vbBOL

[Muellmann]

an interesting aspect: If one forum A has installed this hack and it saves a cookie at a user and this user visits and registers later on forum B (also with your hack installed), will the cookie from forum A interfere with forum B? If so, this would make many wrong alarms, because many people use to register on multiple forums.
Or does the cookie include the domain information of the forum where it was saved and AE checks, if it's a cookie only from this forum?

[GeekDrew]

Cookies are saved on a per-domain basis; there is no (realistic) way that AE operating on a forum on a different domain could be interfering with another AE's operation.