Stolen email

From: Rocky (yr_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:54:26 GMT

Hi. I occasionally get emails with my email address as the sender. These
are spam, and I realize they're spoofing my email, is this just because
someone gathered my email somewhere and using it to send spam, or is there a
security hole in my system somewhere? I am fully updated and run a updated
firewall and virus program. I'm very security conscious about opening email
attachments running unknown programs.
    Thanks, any info would be appreciated

 

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