Something is trying to launch Mail. What?

Possibly relevant: A few weeks ago, my Yahoo account was used to send spam. (Yes, I changed the password). I check that account on both my Mac at home and my PC at work and ran a virus check at work (it didn't find anything).
After that, I've come home from work to discover that something is trying to launch Mail on my Mac. I don't use Mail, so it just gets stuck at the setup screen and bounces on my toolbar all day long, but I'm wondering what is doing this.
Is this related to the spam, or just a coincidence? If it is related to the spam, how do I fix it? If it's not related to the spam, how do I stop it?
Thanks!

What else is running at the time? Try quitting other programs before you go to work and see what happens. Open Activity Monitor and make sure the pop-up at the top of the window reads "My Processes", then compare to the list below (default items running on my machine with third-party processes removed, sorted by name). Is there anything on your list that isn't on this one?
Activity Monitor
AirPort Base Station Agent
AppleSpell.service
Console
crash-catcher
DashboardClient
DashboardClient
Dock
Finder
fontd
imklaunchagent
launchd
LKDCHelper
loginwindow
mdworker
pboard
Quick Look Helper
ssh-agent
SyncServer
SystemUIServer
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