Need help with Spam Issue

[MajorTom]

Some spammer is using my email address and I’m getting 4 or 5 “undeliverable” messages per day from different Mail-Daemons all over the world.

I know it’s not a virus on my system because:
a) I’m clean according to newest definitions and scans from both macafee and Norton
and b) the addresses the mails were originally sent to aren’t in my address book or anywhere else on my PC.

My provider says it’s fairly easy to fake a mail address, said thier hands are tied and they can’t do anything to stop it.

Anyhow, excepting a mail to Sivadrake, I haven’t sent a mail to anyone here in the last two weeks. If you got one, send it to me. It might help to track him down.

Any experience here with this sort of annoyance and how to deal with it?

Edit: Doh! issue resolved. It’s apparently not a human spammer but a function in the new MyDoom virus that uses the adresses in the infected systems email address book to fake the senders name in the mails it sends out.
i.e some of the people who have my email address in their address book are infected with the virus.
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