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.

[leftie]

How can i edit the "no soup for you" phrase. It is saying it has been edited and saved in phrases but will not show in the posts. Can it be 'forced' to save.

[MPDev]

leftie, after you click on Mark Installed , check the plug-in itself; I had troubles with the phrases at one point and had to go back to using text in the plug-in.

Nothing has changed in the code to make it function differently between versions, so I can't explain why it would behave differently.

[GeekDrew]

leftie -- by "will not show in the posts", are you talking about posts that it makes after you edited the phrase, or posts that were already made before you edited the phrase?

[leftie]

Oops sorry MPDev *installed*.

GeekDrew,, I am talking about posts that have been made after the phrase edit.
Could i edit the xml file itself (two references to no soup for you) and reinstall.

[Alfa1]

MPDev, I have a feature request, which would be very handy IMHO:

If one of the reported accounts was banned, then display the reason for this ban in the Multiple Login Detection reports.

What do you think of this?

[teedizz]

i just dont know why this doesnt work for me. It use to work perfectly on 3.5.4 but now that im on 3.6.4 it dont work

ive tried on all versions, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, and 3.6.4 and it never worked...damn, i need this dang hack too

[Eagle Creek]

Very nice but... Why aren't there any phrases? Everything is INSIDE the plugin.

Works nice on 3.6.4 though.

[akulion]

hey is it possible to exclude someone from tripping the detector?

cos i have about 5 or 6 families who come to my forum
the adults like to discuss
the kids usually play games in the arcade

and everyday i have about 8 or 9 pms telling me the AED was tripped by these users
so any resolve for this please?

[Alfa1]

Yes, you can add their userid's to admincp -> vbulletin options -> AE detector -> ignore users (or simular)

[klaus]

First off I love this hack and it works awesome for my community. All of the moderators love it.

While investigating a user just now I noticed that all Flagged users share user "admin" IP in common. Every time it trips and posts a new thread in my "incident log" forum it is user admin that posts, and admin posts from the same IP as the offender rather then my server IP. First I was alert and concerned but eventually figured out what was happening. No complaints on this, just an observation I thought was worth sharing.