[ale] Help unraveling a "practical joke"?

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

Wong mailing list, please IGNORE as it was as off topic as I could get here!

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've got a situation where two business partners were having issues
> with each other.
>
> Based on a brief look at the image of one of their computers:
>
> When partner-A came in to work yesterday and logged into his computer
> with his normal login, a new user profile "/documents and
> settings/TEMP" was created with basically nothing in it.
>
> I still see "/documents and settings/UserA" but when I login as UserA,
> I am presented the desktop from .../TEMP/Desktop.
>
> It feels like a practical joke to me, but I don't know how to make it
> happen in the first place, and I don't know how to undo it so that
> UserA sees the Desktop for "/documents and settings/UserA/desktop".
>
> Alternatively, it might have been some malware screwing with things.
>
> At this point, I don't think its worth spending a lot of time on, but
> I would like to undo the damage.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
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-- 
Greg Freemyer
Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo -
?? http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retrieved/

The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
http://www.norcrossgroup.com