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.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I actually rewrote a lot of this for my forum a while ago, tbh I cant exactly remember what I changed, but I know it works much better for us now.

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[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I actually rewrote a lot of this for my forum a while ago, tbh I cant exactly remember what I changed, but I know it works much better for us now.

I'd be interested to see that if you can figure out what was changed.

[LOKIN510051]

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[mikeylikesitz]

this seemed to quit working for me on 4.0.6

[Merjawy]

works here on 4.0.6

It did not exclude me even though I had set it to exclude admin group

other than that.. it works still

[Bram H]

Still works for me also. Not sure if its healthy keeping a 3.7 mod on a 4.0.7 forum

[BirdOPrey5]

There's nothing 'unhealthy' about it... 4.x shares a lot of code with 3,x, in general as long as a mod is all php based and there aren't template edits it usually works fine.

[MHC]

Originally Posted by SecondV

Indeed, but I do see some things that could be improved

Originally Posted by Paul M

I actually rewrote a lot of this for my forum a while ago, tbh I cant exactly remember what I changed, but I know it works much better for us now.

I'm keeping an eye on this thread because I'd like to be notified if there is ever a newer version that is released. For a forum running on vB 4.0.8, here.

[exportforce]

I am still in very urgent need in the following addon for this mod:

Not only the new account gets moved into a new usergroup, but the old one as well.
No matter if it is only login or registration.
I need all accounts instantly banned. Waiting for this since release, but no one is capable of doing this.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by exportforce

I need all accounts instantly banned.

If you want all that much work, just enable moderation for all new accounts.

Remember, this mod doesn't even try to tell you when the same person registers with a new account - it only tells you when someone logs in from the same browser on the same computer with a different username. It would be absurd to ban both people automatically for doing that. And if you did happen to catch a miscreant via this method, they would learn quickly and next time it wouldn't be so easy to spot them.