Suspicious emails from me to my Contacts

Recently, two of my contacts said that they have received the suspicious email me.

We have an e-mail address of * address email is removed from the privacy *, but watch my name.  The second, to another contact, shows my name and a date sent June-, 1969.  I ran Microsoft Essentials scan and Scanner security of Microsoft and no virus, spyware or malware was found.

I or my contacts should I do something else?  Thank you

Hello

Which is called Spoofing and its pretty easy for a spammer to make.
Of course it makes it look like you or the other person who sent the
Messaging. Someone intercepted a mail and it may not have been
You causing him. Account of a friend could have been consulted
or even someone could have sent an email on your part for
someone else who has been compromised. Your friend can access to the
headers and block the real senders, although these will be changed
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.

Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

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