Loses and/or modifies user accounts & profiles

[Chris]

Has anyone encountered this problem, I have seen it twice
in the last week in 2 completely different
locations....the main user loses his or her profile
settings like desktop background, my documents, any
application icons on the desktop, etc...also when you go
into documents and settings you see a couple of new user
folders 1 is a name or temp or something like that, then
the other is either of those 2 names follwed by a dot and
computer name, example computer name is Julie, ther will
be a new folder called juliana if that's her username,
then the other new folder will be called julie.juliana or
juliana.julie, and there are no settings in either one of
those and when she tries to logon with her username it
uses one of those folders as it's profile and the old one
doesn't come up even though the folder for that profile is
still in documents and settings....amd if I try to delete
one of those new folders it gives me a message saying
cannot delete this is a system folder that is in
use....what the f**k is this, I've tried resarching virus
info for 2 days trying to find out something but have not
been able to find anything.....if you've seen this please
advise....thank you in advance for any info...Chris

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi, Chris - remember, paragraph breaks are your friend. Your post is very
hard to read....it's like you're channeling William Faulkner! If you write
clearly you will always get more help in the groups.

That said - are you on a domain using roaming profiles? Check the event logs