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.

[kpierce]

I believe it will "alarm" only once per user that has more than one account. If you cleared everything, it's probably detecting all of the users it already detected before the fresh install.

[Doctor Death]

Works great in 3.8.1. Alarmed today when two board members stole and shared passwords of a third member. Was great! Also got to test out banning. Thanks for a great and simple product.

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by 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?

Anytime two accounts/logons share the same public IP address this will trip. Either you are finding many folks on same subnet OR your database of original signon IPs is corrupt. I bet it is the first instance.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

Anytime two accounts/logons share the same public IP address this will trip.

No it wont, this has nothing to do with IP addresses.

[HDT]

We have a lot a wife and husband registered with different username and live in one house and use same PC,they always trapped when login to the forum,how to exclude them from this notification after first notification?Thanks.

[Videx]

I gotta admit, after using this a while, I too have found one couple that inexplicably seem to use each other's computers with abandon. And wouldn't ya know it - she's the paranoid type, so presumably is clearing her cookies on every logout.

An exclusion list would be nice.

[Kiros72]

Unless I missed something, it's had the ignore feature since version 1.0.2.

1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

[Videx]

Yeah well, I didn't say it wasn't already included. I just said it would be a nice feature!

Now I really gotta think about if I actually want to ignore her.

[Kiros72]

Ha, okay

[enyem]

Can i install the 3.7 in my Forum with Version 3.8.1 ???