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.
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I also have a couple of questions:
I have two users, claiming to live in different cities, that appear with the same IP and have both posted within 7 minutes. How probable is this? I suspect that they are the same person, but is there a way to be 100% sure, before taking any precautions? How accurate is this script?
I also have a couple of questions:
I have two users, claiming to live in different cities, that appear with the same IP and have both posted within 7 minutes. How probable is this? I suspect that they are the same person, but is there a way to be 100% sure, before taking any precautions? How accurate is this script?
The script is 100% accurate since it injects code into the cookie set by your forum. If someone goes to: hxxp://www.yourforum.com and then hxxp://youforum.com - that will generate 2 different cookies (the same if you have different TLDs (.net, .org., etc.)) and therefore 2 different screen-names can go unnoticed.
If they share an IP, and it is not a proxy-server IP (and they are not spoofing their IP) then they are the same person.
really provved much useful to me just after 1 day of installation..
one user was spamming severely and ZE detector trapped that user's of ids..
but i confused as ips of all users were not from even similer country..2were similer other were different..
and one more thing.. it detected x & y
then y & z
mean x=z isnt it? [but ip were from different country]
Installed, and it was workin just fine, but now it stoped workin, I dont know the reason!!!
I have tried to reinstall, but there is no efect...
Any idea?
How is it possible to get this message using this mod?
It seems to indicate that the same username is being logged on twice?
Quote:
nelly tripped AE detector
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nelly seems to have multiple personalities using nelly and nelly sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!
How is it possible to get this message using this mod?
It seems to indicate that the same username is being logged on twice?
Regards,
Badger
Mine was doing that and I asked the user to clear the cookies and they did and it stopped. But now I'm getting like 5 users with the same thing as you have going on.
Mine was doing that and I asked the user to clear the cookies and they did and it stopped. But now I'm getting like 5 users with the same thing as you have going on.
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11-24-2007, 12:37 PM
