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=125871

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases 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.

[soundbarrierpro]

Is there any way to find out if a member has multiple logins when they don't post? I have several members who don't post but the IP ranges look the same in WOL, I can't figure out if it's the same people.

[Videx]

This mod would trigger as normal in that case. i.e., It triggers when they log in; posting isn't required to trigger.

But what the heck are you obsessing for? Why do you care if they're going to all the trouble to log in and just read as two different users? Not that I can imagine they would.

[momo2]

Thanks, it can come very handdy...

[obiefan]

somehow, uninstalling this hosed my phrase sql file. Not sure what happened there. Good thing I had a recent backup...

But the AE multiple login settings options still show in ACP, VB options. Is there any way to manually remove these?

Thanks

[Kiros72]

I think that if you reinstall the product and then uninstall it, it should all go accordingly. If it doesn't, then you might have something wrong with your vBulletin installation.

[rbecking]

Does this work in 3.8?

[Jah-Hools]

This pug in has survived the upgrade from 3.7 to 3.8 on my forum.

So - yes.

[obiefan]

Worked perfectly... Thanks!

Originally Posted by Kiros72

I think that if you reinstall the product and then uninstall it, it should all go accordingly. If it doesn't, then you might have something wrong with your vBulletin installation.

[corman420]

Installed. We're having alot of issues with people making multiple accounts... Sometimes, people just dont have lives Hopefully this will help us keep track!

[TROLL]

We had to rebuild our site and just went back online with it it was a fresh install of vbulletin but we restored our working database into it... we had AE Detector installed previously and reinstalled it now again onto the fresh forum/server.
It is throwing off a TON of notifications! I normally get one or two a day maybe, I've gotten 50 or more already today.
Anything you can think of as to why it might be doing this?