Who might this New User be?

Hiyas,

When a new user registers your board, this hack analyzes his email, password, ip address and isp (ranged ip) against existing board members and produces a sorted list with probabilities about who this new user might be. (See screenshot below). This list will be emailed to you with new user notification mail. (The probabilities can be modified by you so it's you who decide how matched results are sorted and ranked, dont blame me!)

Tested and will work better in relatively smaller boards (less than 3000 members). If you have a small board, this hack may help you a bit to track and pinpoint existing users if they re-register with different usernames. For large boards, IMO it's pointless to track new users anyway..

As far as I know it will work with ANY vbulletin version so feel free to try. Installation is very easy, actually 2 simple steps and will take you 2 minutes to apply..

If they change their both ip, isp, password and email, the hack cant get them, yeah I know! This is the best we can do with computer technologies. If you have higher expectations and demands, you may regard consulting a "Seer"..

If you liked this hack, I suggest checking Jawelin's nice Paranoid dupe user buster when moderating Hack too. They make a good couple and I use them both.

Click Install button, if you installed the hack, thank you!

Enjoy! \=^))

Logician

[mariannet]

Ok, well it did clash and the mySQL error stopped when I removed your code. It's a shame, I was really finding your hack very usefull because "my kids" think it's easy to change username just by setting up another profile
I'll let you know if I find a way around it

[Morgalis]

Read your signature Logician, and I'm giving a bump to this thread to let you know that we are eager for the return of this admin tool.. thought it was better than one of a sea of pm's asking you to port your hacks

[misterfade]

Yes, I REALLY miss this hack. I've caught so many banned members trying to sneak back in under a different name, don't know why this wasn't included in VB3. We all need this Logician!

[Logician]

The problem with that hack's porting is that VB3 password system has been completely changed and it is very hard to match passwords of existing users at the moment. And IMO password match was the most important feature of this hack. So I need to figure out a solution before working on porting which causes me to give this hack a low priority in my to-port list. I don't say I won't but I can not say it will be soon, sorry.

[joergh]

Hi logician,

I read from your passwort algorithm prob to port this hack to vb3. Have you been a step further? I found this a really really useful and important hack for vb2. I would like to see it in my vb3 as well!

Thanks so much!

joergh

[GunsNetwork]

Logician this waas an extremely important hack for popular boards.

Please keep us in mind if you still plan on working on a 3.0.3 solution.

[GunsNetwork]

Logician

How can you config this program for vBulletin 3.0.3 without the hack figuring out the passwode code. Meaning make the whole program work without having to worry about matching passwords????

I liked to due to the IP & ISP's percentage

[NSeXcellent]

As much as I loved this hack in vB2, ill have to subscribe to this thread and hope that he gets it to work for 3 :/

[Talisman]

This hack is much needed in vB3. Please??

[94supratt]

Hack works fine for me in 2.3.0 however when I have "Verify Email address in registration" enabled I get a DB error. Any idea why?