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.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by mescalin

currently it doesnt ignore some users in 3.7 so admin etc can be reported also..

has anybody else had this problem?

I wasn't sure of exactly what that meant, as it's phrased oddly. But I know we tried to enable reporting of admins and super mods just as a test, and were unable to trigger it.

[DiverTree]

Originally Posted by Videx

I wasn't sure of exactly what that meant, as it's phrased oddly. But I know we tried to enable reporting of admins and super mods just as a test, and were unable to trigger it.

are you saying that you didnt exclude admins and supermods from being reported, and it didnt report them?

i hope somebody pics this up and updates it to 3.7.0. its become a most invaluable tool.

[Videx]

Right. That seemed the easiest way to test it, since we all have second normal-user accounts.

[Swampfox]

It is working for me on 3.7.0, although it did something strange this morning

It tripped with the same person, same username, same userid???

strange

[-=Leb=-]

I think the time has come for a new update. most of us are using VB 3.7 .
swamp it happened to me on my forum.

It seems like the login detector is not working on VB 3.7

[Boofo]

It's working fine for me on 3.7.

[pcoskat]

Any word on whether or not this will be updated to 3.7?

It seems to be working for some, but not others.

[samraz972]

It randomly stopped working.

[sross]

Originally Posted by samraz972

It randomly stopped working.

mine too, i tried re-installing and no luck. i'm on 3.6.8

/CRY!!!

[samraz972]

Im on 3.7 and it worked for a long time donno what happened I HATE IT