Clicked on spam link!!!

I did a really silly thing by clicking on a link in what even a short peruse of the email would have told me was part of what I moments later looked up and determined was a
USPS scam email
I'm actually expecting an important doc in the mail and that prompted me to click before thinking. I clicked on a link that said it would open a window and allow me to print pertinent info to take to my post office. Instead, it of course opened a web page and put up a 404 Error instead.
I work on a MacBook Pro with the latest OS x 10.9.2 and have an up to date version of Intego Internet Security. I've run a complete scan with today's (4/10/14) virus definitions and it finds nothing but is that good enough???
I also have 4 different versions of Windows available to run under VMware (XP, 7, 8 and 8.1). But those weren't running and I never use mail under those Windows OS's anyway.
The mail client I use on the Mac side is Apple Mail.
I've been hearing these scam emails plan malware that can steal usernames and passwords.
1. Is there a name for some certain piece of malware that I should be aware of??? Or are there many and one can't tell which one or ones might be with any particular email??
2. Is my Mac at risk??
3. Does Intego tell me it find nothing a true sign that the Mac is not infected??? Or no???
thanks... Feeling foolish... bob...

Yes, that's all I did was click on a link. But more out of curiosity than anything, when I clicked on that link, did it not likely download something, granted maybe an exe file that won't run on the mac, but isn't such a file likely sitting somewhere right now on my mac??
I did a search on exe and it found 9 total, every one of which I know what they are and why they are on my mac. So does such a file download even if it can't run??? If so, where might it go to hide??? Possible to know or not???
So to say it differently, when you click on a link you shouldn't in an email, you work on a Mac but the malware is intended for a PC what happens with the intended download??? Does it just not happen or what???
bob..

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