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Mephex is correct. It works like this:
if you are Bob, and Jane has you in her contact list.
and Jand also has Dick on her list. (someone you've never heard of)
and Jane gets infected with one of these viruses.
it'll send from her machine, with you as the recipient, and Dick as the sender. So to you, it looks like you got a message from Dick, but you didn't, it was really from Jane.
BTW, there's a lot of problems with these kinds of viruses, because a number of mail scanners (norton in particular) send a message back to the supposed sender (dick, in the above example), and they then think they're infected...which they aren't. If you're getting mail delivery failuires, most likely someone with your email in their address book is infected, you got stuck in as the sender, and the failure notice got sent back to the supposed sender (you), rather than to the infected machine.
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