I recently received a pop up from 'euro-pol' asking me to pay money to unlock my safari.

I recently received a pop up from 'euro-pol' asking me to pay money to unlock my safari. I searched google on another computer and found it is quite a common malware issue. I found instructions of unlocking safari by resetting safari completely. Safari now works fine but I am frightened as I had student finance a banking details on my history etc. should I reformat and restore from backup? I am running mountain lion. I do have a windows partition, would this affect this? Should I not worry or what should I do? Please help...

This is not any kind of malware, it is purely a fraudulent javascript-based "scare tactic" which fools people into giving away their money. It stores nothing on your computer, nor does it have any access to your files or personal information.
As you've found, quitting Safari and restarting it with no windows open (hold down Shift as you launch it) will avoid reloading it.
So you have nothing to worry about in this regard.
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