Download ATF Cleaner by Atribune to your Desktop.

Note: Vista users must use Run As Administrator
 Under Main: Select Files to Delete choose: Select All.
 Click the Empty Selected button.
 If you use Firefox browser click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
 Click the Empty Selected button.
If you would like to keep your saved passwords click No at the prompt.
 If you use Opera browser click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
 Click the Empty Selected button.
If you would like to keep your saved passwords click No at the prompt.
 Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.

Then do below:

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop. Click here
* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
* At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
* If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan.
* When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
* Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
 The log is automatically saved by MBAM and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM.
The log can also be found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Logs\log-date.txt

 Copy and Paste the entire report in your next reply.

Zep, Thanks for your help. DH did what you suggested. There was nothing found. I'll close the email acct and get a new one. We still don't know if this affects anything other than hot___mail.

why don't you give gmail a try

it may not be your hotmail account doing it at all! It very well could be anyone that has your email address listed in their address book. those type infections spoof the address, select one from the address book and use that as the senders info, so that the real one is not aware they have the problem. Actually since it does have your address as the sender info is almost certain it is NOT yours sending it. Someone you know likely has an infection and it spoofed your name and address from their address book which makes you look like the guilty party.

I would ask someone that is getting those emails to open up the header info and get all the full header info and send it to you so you can try to trace where it is actually coming from. sometimes with full header info you can figure it out sometimes not.

to get the full header info in windows live hotmail
" to view full headers. You must be in Full Version mode to do this.

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In your inbox, right-click on the email message displayed in the list of messages.
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From the drop-down menu that appears, click on View Source.

From there, a new window will appear that displays the full header of the message"

in the old hotmail you could push alt + enter and see the headers.

every mail client has some way to view the header info you can find it pretty easily with a google search.