Email Spam Sent through my AOL Account

This is about the 3rd or 4th time unknown persons have sent Canadian pharmacy solicitations (ie: Viagra, etc.) to my list of friends and business accounts using my AOL email address. Its quite embarrassing to have these emails come through my address. Have reported such problems to the AOL wizards before but apparantly AOL does not have the desire nor the ability to protect its customers. Next time I will be firing AOL and using gmail, Knology.net,, etc for my new provider. Nuffs Enough with these fake email spam being sent through my AOL account.