How do I handle a hacked email?

Ok, so I received an email from my friend and it was all yuck and disgusting and etc and she said that I sent it to her, but I didn't, and I even checked my sent emails and nothing came up of this! Obviously my email had been hacked, but the email was sent to only one person, which was a good friend of mine (coincidence)? But anyway, I've changed my password but I want to now how can I protect my email account from hacking, not just by changing me email?

How do I handle a hacked email?
Probably was not hacked. It probably looked like it came from you but didn't. It is not hard to spoof a return address and make email look like it comes from someone else until you take a good look at the header information.





Beside changing your email or having a special code (like * ) on the subject line so she knows it is really from you there are not too many options.
Reply:Your friend would need to open the email that she says you sent her and look for the header information to see exactly where the email came from.





Finding the header information is different on every email client. SO I can't tell you how to view it.





Looks something like this:





Received: by sphinx (mbox mlande) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Wed Aug 20 19:41:38 2003)


X-From_: admin@internet.com Wed Aug 20 19:40:22 2003


Return-Path: %26lt;admin@internet.com%26gt;


Received: from psmtp.com (exprod5mx37.postini.com [12.158.34.194]) by sphinx.got.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.3) with SMTP id for %26lt;mary@indefense.com%26gt;; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:40:05 -0700


Message-Id:


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If you've been infected with a virus, it can grab all the addresses in your address book and send out an email to all of them and not leave any traces in your sent items. Take the subject line of the email she sent back and google it to see if it comes back as part of a virus.





Update your anti-virus and run a scan.
Reply:there is no way. a determined hacker will keep cracking the password,


and eventually it will get in and change the password so you cannot get


in.
Reply:tell me the email id it's yahoo or gmail or hotmail.cases are different for different domains.reply as soon as possible