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.

[Lean Bodies]

Doesn't seem to work for me for some reason.

[Unsterblich]

works, thank you, i click install

[sturdy]

How fix the problem, if somebody has some Special Chars in his nick like " or < or >
The Message which will be posted looks like that "&amp;lt;3_Ephraim_&amp;lt;3 "

[tintructo]

this mod is GREAT, it's working like a charm

I have a suggestion for next update, if you like of course :

Could there be an option to set the User's ID not to check in the ACP ? I have some users with brothers who use different accounts in the same computer, and i'm getting a lot of PMs about the detection lol...


edit...i just saw that option...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...nevermind....awesome

[njoker555]

today it said two members tripped the AE Detector and they use same computer - i ran both of their IPs - one is located in Serbia and the other in mid-west United States which is about 10,000 miles difference lol

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by njoker555

today it said two members tripped the AE Detector and they use same computer - i ran both of their IPs - one is located in Serbia and the other in mid-west United States which is about 10,000 miles difference lol

Whenever I receive an alert I always PM the User. I don't think I've been lied to yet.

[njoker555]

Originally Posted by Fungsten

Whenever I receive an alert I always PM the User. I don't think I've been lied to yet.

well some use a proxy to access the forum again so i installed that mod that turns proxy ip to real ip and guess what? those two on my forum turned out to be the same guy - banned both accounts and banned his IP

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by njoker555

well some use a proxy to access the forum again so i installed that mod that turns proxy ip to real ip and guess what? those two on my forum turned out to be the same guy - banned both accounts and banned his IP

I forgot about that. I have the Proxy Mod installed. Thanks.

[rolfw1]

Got two users now who throw up regular alerts, but as the same user. any ideas?

For instance

user1 seems to have multiple personalities using user1 and user1 sharing the same computer.

[Arrogant-One]

Originally Posted by sola

Still as useful as ever.

Just for the mentally impaired, what this mod does is shows if 2 or more member accounts log in from the same IP address (implying that they are hydra's)? Is this correct?

AO