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.

[almightyone]

i got a notification a member is using my account which i know is not possable as my account pw is extremely secure will it send a notification if they attempt a login or only if they do login

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by almightyone

i got a notification a member is using my account which i know is not possable as my account pw is extremely secure will it send a notification if they attempt a login or only if they do login

I've had notifications that I'm using another member's IP address who is on a completely different ISP thousands of miles away. I don't even know the member, let alone share his computer.

There is something a little off about this mod, but I've never been able to figure out a pattern. I seems to work for most cases, so I've left it running, even with these anomalies.

Regards,
Badger

[SOL-R]

Hi, I had the same thing for the ip address. What I did was create an id just for this. I call mine Boilerwatcher. Then you don't get the ip addresses tagged on to your id.

Work pretty good for me.

R.

[needaltuna]

One of the best hacks ever!

Much obliged to the designer.

[ETDC]

Originally Posted by ETDC

I've had a notification PM from a member who I didn't nominate in the Control Panel.

I put in my Usergroup ID (6) and I get the notification from some random member.

What's causing this and how do I fix?

Anyone?

[Tryppnotic69]

Working great. Thanks :-)

[FYC Racing]

installed...

anybody know whats up with this though?

CapeCodEclipse seems to have multiple personalities using CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse and CapeCodEclipse sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!

This is the only member i have issues with.

[Scormen]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I've had notifications that I'm using another member's IP address who is on a completely different ISP thousands of miles away. I don't even know the member, let alone share his computer.

There is something a little off about this mod, but I've never been able to figure out a pattern. I seems to work for most cases, so I've left it running, even with these anomalies.

Regards,
Badger

I'm having the same problem. I'm using this mod already a year. But the mod isn't updated from september 2006. Shouldn't it be better to have a look at the code please, MPDev?

Many thanks,
Kris

[Karri]

Originally Posted by Scormen

I'm having the same problem. I'm using this mod already a year. But the mod isn't updated from september 2006. Shouldn't it be better to have a look at the code please, MPDev?

Many thanks,
Kris

I have that happen but it seems to be related to when I had my user ID be the one that created the thread to alert the mods on my site that a dup account was detected. The mod creates that post with the IP of the user it is detecting. So I changed the user attached to the post reports to a dummy account and it stopped the IPs from showing up in my profile but they go to the other account instead. It would probably solve the problem if we could specify an IP for the report threads to be created with.

[NeitherSparky]

Originally Posted by Karri

I have that happen but it seems to be related to when I had my user ID be the one that created the thread to alert the mods on my site that a dup account was detected. The mod creates that post with the IP of the user it is detecting.

Yes that's exactly it. It threw me off at first too, I even posted about it on the main vBulletin support forum because I was afraid I was being hacked by all these random people.