My Vista laptop looks like it is meant hotmail before mail spam messages to everyone on my contact list, even those that I deleted

I'm getting occasional failure to deliver messages with a spam message sent on earn money at home or something similar.  I have never seen the original and never passed all these messages.  The address line has almost every address that I sent in, even those that I deleted my contacts.  I did a virus scan.  I wonder if it's my machine, or something from the hotmail system generation?

Hello

Which is called Spoofing and its pretty easy for a spammer to make. Of course, it does
it look like you or the other person has sent the e-mail. Someone intercepted an email and
It may not be you who caused him. Account of a friend could have been consulted
or even someone could have sent an email on your behalf to someone else who has been
compromise. Your friend can access headers and block the real senders of
those who will change often.

How to read the message headers
http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/header.html

What Email Headers can tell you about the origin of Spam
http://email.about.com/cs/spamgeneral/a/spam_headers.htm

E-mail spoofing
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing

E-mail spoofing and Phishing
http://www.mailsbroadcast.com/email.broadcast.FAQ/46.email.spoofing.htm

Understanding E-mail Spoofing
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/email-spoofing.html

Fraudulent emails (false)
http://pages.eBay.com/education/spooftutorial/

Google search - email Spoofing
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&EI=FB1nS9DiNo7CsQPNhKGdAw&SA=X&Oi=spell&resnum=0&CT=result&CD=1&ved=0CAgQBSgA&q=email+spoofing&spell=1

I hope this helps.

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