They are doing this by using the built in Windows Messenger tool.
You can disable it by turning off "Messenger" in your services. To do this in Windows 2000, right click on "My computer" and go to "properties". Then, double-click on "Services and Applications", then d/c on "Services". Right click on "Messenger" and select "properties" and disable it and stop it.
There was a thread about this a while back and quite a few online news sites covered this new spam-tactic...
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