User's Outlook sending out emails User claims to have never sent...

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JazzMann

One of my users got a reply from another user to an email she claims
to have never sent...

We use Outlook 2007 on an Exchange 2003 server.

One of the two messages sent this week went like this:

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Today is International Disturbed People's Day

Please send an encouraging message to a disturbed friend... just as
I've done.

I don't care if you lick windows,
take the special bus
or occasionally pee on yourself..
You hang in there sunshine, you're friggin' special.


Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full
minute of happiness you'll never get back.

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And so on. Full of funny photos, encouraging words, and moving GIFs...
the kind of stuff your mom sends you every other day.

So it wasnt bad, but it did go to 7 or 8 internal users and 3 external
users in her address book in Outlook.

She swears up and down that she did not send it, and I beleive her,
short of her having short term memory loss, which I havent ruled out.

She also claims no one has used her computer all week other than her
(I did catch her daughter using it a month or so agi playing online
games). I have a hard time beleiving that if someone maliciously snuck
on to her computer that they would send silly, innocent, clean
forwards like the one above. Albeit, annoying.

She claims to have not downloaded or installed anything new. I took a
gander at her system and it does, indeed, look pretty clean.

The headers are blank when I pull it from her sent items. When I pull
the headers of it from a user that recieved the message, it shows that
it did, indeed, originate on my network.

I updated her Virus scan and did a full system scan... nothing.

One odd thing is that at the very bottom of one of these mystery
emails, was the following:

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This email may contain confidential protected health information and/
or attorney privileged information. If received in error, see our
Privacy Statement at http://www.brookdaleliving.com/brookdale2004/internaldefault.aspx?tabid=799
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.
Try it now.
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The other one had an AOL ad at the bottom. Making me assume she didnt
create this email by hand.
It could have been FORWARDED by her, but the headers didnt show that
she was forwarding it, more like she created it on her own computer
(with the exception of the footer aboe)

ANY ideas are appreciated in advance... and applications you recommend
I DL and run will help.
Jazz Mann
 
B

Brian Tillman

JazzMann said:
One of my users got a reply from another user to an email she claims
to have never sent...

We use Outlook 2007 on an Exchange 2003 server.

Was the reply from an internal or an external person? It's easy as anything
to use someone else's mail address as the sender address of a message.
Perhaps this affronted user's mail address was hijacked.
 

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