Originally Posted by
risk
Depends what the spam message was...
Recently, a lot of the spamming webites use a different approach than usual.
They send out an email from their servers but using your name in their account names & the email address. The domain name obviously will be different, but this evades many anti-spamming policies running on online email clients like Hotmail, Yahoo etc... Sometimes they even evade the local anti-spamware too as some of these anti-spamware cross-checks the username with your address book & since the name is the same, it lets it get through...
So:
It might not be you...
It might not be your computer...
It might not be your programs...
It might just be clever people out there using their brilliance for the 'not-so-good' purposes....
It's not so recent.
It's also not necessarily that "The domain name obviously will be different" as anyone with an open relay can send an email message to anyone else purporting to be from anyone (as I found many moons ago on my computer course when running to the dean to be asked why I had been thrown off the course only to be told that he knew nothing of the email I, and many of my classmates had received that purported to be from him).
Hence, don't let it get you down, you've probably just been advertising your email address somewhere and it's been harvested and used for this purpose. Don't let anyone else blame you either, but a cursory scan of your computer might be a good idea.