IMac waking up..console says hijack!

Hey...
My iMac has been waking up allot during the night for the past few months... Someone when I come to it I find it not sleeping at all. I was told a few weeks ago when I catch it go to the system log.. I did that today and am now really worried its some sort of Mac Virus or something.. I could be wrong its just the name freaks me out.
26/06/10 2:07:44 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[88] (com.apple.AddressBook.abd) The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.AddressBook.abd" from this job: [0x0-0xd9fd9f].com.apple.AddressBook.abd

Address Book appears to be trying to gain access to the CPU or a datafile unsuccessfully. Since it's AB that's involved you might consider removing the referenced preference file and replacing it with one from a known good backup.
If you have AB always open, see what happens if you quit it.

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[quote]
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