How can I stop someone from using my mail id to send junk mail?

It does not happend all that often, but occasionaly I get a message that someone (who I don't know and is not in my address book) received an email from me that I did not send. Is there a way to stop that or protect my from that happening?

There may not be too much that you can do since it's most likely not originating from your email account. There are a slew of Windows viruses and worms that scan the infected computer for email addresses and then send out emails with spoofed From: addresses that it finds.
Just one example of a virus generated email taken from Symantec's website
English:
From: Spoofed
Subject: I've_got your EMail on my_account!
Message:
Hello,
First, Very Sorry for my bad English.
Someone is sending your private e-mails on my address.
It's probably an e-mail provider error!
]-f
At time, I've got over 10 mails on my account, but the recipient are you.
I have copied all the mail text in the windows text-editor for you & zipped then.
Make sure, that this mails don't come in my mail-box again.
bye
Attachment: your_text.zip
Have you ever responded? The email that you're receiving may even be from a similiar virus.

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