Just a warning. My husband got a spam email from me last night. It turns out my email was hacked and someone (well a computer) was using it to send spam emails.
They direct you to a website that tries to sell Viagra. It does not contain a virus, so that is good at least. But when I mentioned it at work three other people have had it happen from hotmail, yahoo, and g-mail.
They literally use your email, you can see the outgoing messages in your sent box.
You need to change your email password and it should stop.
Also, a reminder to go through your address book because I haven't cleared mine out for years and awkward messages to ex-boyfriends suck.
It was this basically.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=560d53dee40be5e6&hl=en
If my husband hadn't of said anything I would have never known, even though I talk to most of my email contacts on a regualr basis.