Clicking on a viral email link has caused Safari to play up

I received a link from my aunt through email this morning. Not realising that it must have been viral I clicked on the link.
It opened up in safari and since then I could not quit out of safari, and the option is greyed out. I choose instead to reset safari which means I can now use it, however I cannot quit out of safari and every time I try and shut down, my imac now says that I cannot shut down due to it being open?!!!! .
Please help, I am concerned I now have a virus.
I'm currently on Mountain Lion version 10.8.2, running safari 6.0.1
Thanks...

You do not have a virus.
When you open Safari, is it still loading the same page? If so, force-quit Safari (press command-option-esc, then choose Safari and click the Force Quit button). Then, hold down the shift key and open Safari again. This will prevent it from loading whatever sites were open when it quit.
If that doesn't help, let us know...

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