Surfing the net the other day and picked up a trojan.  It copied my email addresses and now a bunch of people are getting offensive emails.  The apple tech I called recommended Norton/McCaffe virus protection.  I put on Norton, ran a scan and nothing came up.  Is the only thing left to do "damage control?"
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Very timely question. I address some of this in my last newsletter on security which can be found here. You didn’t get a virus or trojan or spyware or anything like that. Most likely what happened was the password to your email account was discovered by an automated program people called “bots” on the internet. Your password may have been a word in the dictionary or a combination of words. These are usually easily discovered by bots. There are other possibilities of how this could have happened. You or someone you know sent an email out with several of your friend’s emails in the cc field. The bot can grab those emails and send them back to the creator of the bot (usually someone working for a spamming company) then spoof your email address for a possible better chance at getting to users eyes in their inbox.

Either way this happened the first thing you need to do is CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD to your email account. DO NOT install Norton or any other anti virus software. That would be a bad choice. Just be sure that in the future you use secure passwords not found in the dictionary and don’t cc large groups. Use the bcc field which hides email addresses from the recipient.