I think my .mac account email got compromised... please help! :(

Can anyone advise me? On my mac mail program today, I saw an email in my inbox from an old contact, with just a link in the body, and rightly assumed it was spam or a virus. I clicked on the email to delete it but did not click on the link. Of course, shortly after I received an email from myself with a suspicious looking link in the body.
Has my account been compromised? I have changed my password and security questions. No one I know has received any odd emails from me and there's nothing in my sent box. What could this be? What can I do to be safe?
Please help!

Don't worry about it. It's a common spammer's trick to make an email appear to come from the person it's been sent to, to to get round any spam filters. It's another common trick to forge someone's email address as the 'From' address on a whole bunch of spam messages - if they do it to you you will get a lot of bounced messages where the address they've sent to isn't valid. This is infuriating but usually stops after a bit as they move onto another victim.
There's no likelihood you've been hacked; just delete and ignore.

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Today, I get that authorization message again for the iPhone, with the old email, so I changed it to my current account info, as I have done in the past, but today it's not working.
I happened when I sinked my iPhone, so I ended up not authorizing those 9 songs.

Got it to authorize again using the older account email for those particular songs. I guess I'm stuck with that authorization account email, even though it's no longer in use.

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That would seem to contradict Apple's official policy posted here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/24380694#24380694
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2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
4. iPhoto in particular can easily corrupt its entire library with wireless networking causing a disconnection to one photo. Even if you do this;;; do not move your photo library... you have been warned!!
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I have a problem in calculating the apple id Can you help me please
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Please help
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I think you mean App Store.
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Hello, BaraaBa.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
This sounds like your Apple ID has not yet been used with the iTunes Store. Here is an article that I would recommend going through when experiencing this issue.
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Using an existing Apple ID with the iTunes Store, Mac App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2589
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i am having problems editing the security questions i do not remember i specifically followed the steps and the "send to rescue email" option does not appear even though my rescue email is verified please help me
<Email Edited by Host>

As these are public forums, you're not talking to iTunes Support, I've asked the hosts to remove your email address from your post - it's not a good idea to post it unless you like spam email.
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Please help me.
Whenever i try to sync apps, tones, music etc, it says me to authorize my computer. But i had already authorized it and had even signed into my account. Can you please help me? I am facing this problems since long. please.
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