Email issues -Spoofing or phishing..how to make it stop

I received an email from Paypal that was not from Paypal ( I have forwarded to PayPal and they confirmed it that it was not from them).The email went to my junk folder and I did not open it. However, someone/something is using all of my email addresses that I have on my MACBook. The emails have no subject but have a URL for the recipients to click on.
These emails have gone out to my contacts for a week now..How do I stop this madness?
Do I need to close all of my email accounts?
I did download CLAM AV and they found the email from 10/18/2010 and I setup a quarantined folder for the suspect email. I forwarded to Paypal and to the FTC.

heltoka wrote:
someone/something is using all of my email addresses that I have on my MACBook.
How can you tell? Exactly what do you see that brings you to that conclusion?
These emails have gone out to my contacts for a week now..How do I stop this madness?
Do you see those e-mails in your e-mail client's "sent mail" folder? If not but those e-mails seem to be coming from you, then someone is spoofing you as the e-mail sender.
Do I need to close all of my email accounts?
Not necessarily. You need to assure that you're not a participant in all this by (1) scanning your Mac for malware (which you've evidently done) and (2) changing your mail account password(s) and any associated security questions.
Beyond that there's not a lot you can do to stop spam or phishing.

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