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.

[NeitherSparky]

Originally Posted by Arrogant-One

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

(Unless I'm mistaken) Same *computer*, specifically. Its cookie-based. Actually same computer AND same internet browser, provided cookies aren't cleared. Its still very useful as most people don't take the proper precautions against getting caught. Yes, some people can dodge it. But its still good to have to easily pick off everyone else.

So anyways, like my brother's in the next room and we have the same IP, but we don't set this off, providing we stick to our own computers. Other times siblings, even friends share a computer so they set this off, so sometimes you have to do some detective work to see if that's the case. My forum attracts a lot of teens, so that happens occasionally.

[smooth-c]

hm, having a problem here.

I've set up AE Detector, and soo far 3 users we have created are coming up that a certain staff member is registering them, when he is not but another is with a totally different IP.

Would them both being supermoderators confuse the system or is there a fix for this?

Thanks!

[mistyPotato]

I have 1000 members and installed AE 3 months ago and have not had a single AE trip yet.

I tested the board by creating a duplicate login and it DID log that one.

Is that normal for this size board?

[peterpigman]

Originally Posted by mistyPotato

I have 1000 members and installed AE 3 months ago and have not had a single AE trip yet.

I tested the board by creating a duplicate login and it DID log that one.

Is that normal for this size board?

It depends on how many banned users you have and what type of board it is. We got a lot but have 16000+ and quite a few banned peeps.

[LauraS]

I tried to import the .xml from my local computer, but my vB admin keeps telling me "No file uploaded and no local file found." When I enter all of the product information, it seems to import correctly but it doesn't update the vBulletin Options list with the product option link. Anyone else run into this issue?

[ManagerJosh]

Hey MP

I think you got a bug on this system. For some odd reason it keeps reporting a user of mine has multiple accounts but it lists the same account.

ie. Account1 seems to have multiple personalities using Account1 and Account1.

Ideas?

[Degrinch]

is this compatible with the new beta?

[newguy]

I have tried to make it trip off. I have not ever had it to report anything. I have went to different computers and made new accounts and then loged in and nothing happens at all. Any ideas?

[rwoscott]

Originally Posted by newguy

I have tried to make it trip off. I have not ever had it to report anything. I have went to different computers and made new accounts and then loged in and nothing happens at all. Any ideas?

If you are an admin it may not work. So you have the admin group in the "ignore usergroups" option?
Or your userid in "Ignore users"?

[digitalnorte]

Installed TKS !

It´s great for me.