How can I prevent email Spoofing

People in my contact list become e-Mails allegedly from me asking them to click on a link. I believe that my email address was used by spammers, where, in order to hide their identity, they will be sent spam that appears to come from me. They can do this by using my email address as the "Reply To" address (this is called "email spoofing").  Is it possible that I can avoid this?

Your post is in the forum for anti-malware Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) program and there is not that much MSE can do to help you with this problem.  I use the BCC field when I send e-mail to more than one or two people to reduce the number of e-mail addresses dragged from the bad guys at harvest, but I don't know who does no good.  My daughter sent a series of mailings and now a spammer has almost all of his e-mail address book and loading them up with spam and malware links being sent to 03:00 while the computer is off... she is not happy, neither are the recipients.

As you can see on this link there is not a lot you can do, but make sure your computer is not compromised by malware: http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html

Here are some other interesting links:

http://www.Marthas-Web.com/stopsendingmeavirus.htm

http://ask-Leo.com/someones_sending_email_that_looks_like_its_from_me_to_my_contacts_what_can_i_do.html

Kind regards...

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