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.

[Zagis]

Originally Posted by onehost

I am running 3.6.8 - just installed the two xmls. nothing. I tried signing up as a duplicate account, it bypassed my IP, no block, no PM, no nothing, let the account right on in....

I keep saying that the last two months... I believe there are more people than you and me who having the same problem

[onehost]

Originally Posted by Zagis

I keep saying that the last two months... I believe there are more people than you and me who having the same problem

someone said with a few modifications, that it would work
on vb 3.6.8 - It would be nice if someone posted the updates
for both xml's

[TigerWare]

/me Clicks Installed

Running on 3.6.8 with no problems. Despite cookie based detection being easy to circumnavigate this will certainly weed out some abusers. Cheers!

[onehost]

Originally Posted by TigerWare

[high]* TigerWare Clicks Installed
[/high]

Running on 3.6.8 with no problems. Despite cookie based detection being easy to circumnavigate this will certainly weed out some abusers. Cheers!

did you have to do anything in orderto get it working?

[Alibass]

Both hacks work fine for me also on (3.6.8 PL1) I have been running both for sometime with no problems until a few weeks ago when I upgraded to PHP 5+ and changed the config.php file from MySQL to MySQLi
I started to get an error when members tried to register again with the same IP address, but corrected that with a small change in the product-ma_prevent.xml file. If anyone is having this same problem I can post the code correction if you like.

[TigerWare]

Originally Posted by onehost

did you have to do anything in orderto get it working?

Works as advertised right out of the box as far as I can see. Tested using 2 different accounts and indeed it trips the alarm as expected. The only thing I have changed is the name of the cookie to make it look less obvious, ie: it matches the naming convensions used by the vBulletin installation. I'll be running another few tests over the weekend, but it looks like another great addon. :up:

[MPDev]

The files don't need to be updated; they've worked for a long time as-is. Its a very simple mod; if it isn't working it's likely caused by another plugin interfering in some manner.

[Zagis]

Originally Posted by MPDev

The files don't need to be updated; they've worked for a long time as-is. Its a very simple mod; if it isn't working it's likely caused by another plugin interfering in some manner.

What kind - type of other plugin is more possible to interfere? Where should we start looking from?

[cynthetiq]

if you are also a moderator or admin it will not AE detect you.

[Zagis]

Originally Posted by cynthetiq

if you are also a moderator or admin it will not AE detect you.

It should detect you, if you leave "Ignore User IDs" and "Ignore UserGroup IDs" fields blank