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MattHere is a little bit more information.
The "virus" seems to infiltrate through MSN messenger and generates an email to everyone on your MSN contact list, then deletes your contacts.
It is unclear from what I have read how the virus is spread (it seems that it is not from these emails).
The infected account will show the SPAM email as being sent if you check the online sent box for that account. If you have such an infected account you should change your email password at once and disable MSN Messenger.
If all you did was receive the email, but there is no email in your sent box, then there is no need to change your password as you are not infected.
Again, it does not have anything to do with your Windows based email client if you use one.