You first paragraph tells ALL. - Your friend has an email infection. The email infection sent to his contact list/address book, then it attached to your contact list/addressbook.
Where it started, nobody knows. - I had a similar malware and just had to delete Thunderbird, its contact list, and saved emails/attachments. I now check my email through my web browser.
"Here you go", "Here you are", You got to see this" are frequent subject lines of email trojans.
Dear questioner, I regret to inform you that your account has been hacked. People hack emails to spam contacts. BTW: People who hack you probably have a hacking software.
Changing your password will probably not work. Also, malware isn't always what causes this.
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