My contacts are receiving spam from my email, how can I stop?

What is the best way to scan for virus on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5.8). Yesterday at 10am I started receiving numerous bounced emails in my inbox from random contacts in my address book-some that are very old and I haven't used for years (hence the bounce-back). Also had a few friends email me back saying they were getting spam from me. Shut down my computer and it seemed to stop, however this morning at 10am it started all over again! Yikes! I have three mail accounts including yahoo mail which is where some of the contacts came from originally, although I have since added them to my Mac address book. What is my best course of action? Thanks for your help!!!

Yahoo email is famous for beiing hacked and has nothing to do with your computer. Most of the time.
That is not to say it is your Mac that is doing this.
If you really think it is something on your Mac then turn it off for a day and see if these contacts are still gettig emailsfrom you on that day. If they are and you did not use your computer that day then it is your Yahoo email system that has been hacked.
Also what you could do right now is log on to your Yahoo email and change the password. If the emails stop then again it is your Yahoo email acount that has been hacked and not your Mac.

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