Been getting these by the ton for a week or so now. It contains its own SMTP processor so it sends email out all by itself, using your "Windows addressbook" for destination addresses, whatever that means. I suspect that means your "Outlook" addressbook if you have one. I've not read anything implicating addressbooks from other email programs.

Recently I also read on CNet that it will scan your browser's cache of recently-viewed pages and will grab any email addresses it finds there, too. So it could even send itself out to people not even in your formal addressbook. Could be why Daniel is getting so many of these. I think I'm getting a bunch from people who have visited my Kauai page, with my email address all over it. [Link: members.toast.net]