Facebook Virus?!

Today i got a message from a friend that had a link and saying i found a video of you. i stupidly clicked on the link and it redirected to some adult friend finder webpage so i quickly closed it (embarrassing)
I then heard that these kind of messages on facebook are viruses so im starting to panic if i somehow affected my mac. even though nothing weird has happened i and wondering do macs get viruses and is there something to purchase to prevent stuff like that happening.

Vinnie14 wrote:
Today i got a message from a friend that had a link and saying i found a video of you. i stupidly clicked on the link and it redirected to some adult friend finder webpage so i quickly closed it (embarrassing)
I then heard that these kind of messages on facebook are viruses so im starting to panic if i somehow affected my mac. even though nothing weird has happened i and wondering do macs get viruses
no, there are no os x viruses. even if this was a link with some kind of virus (which it wasn't btw, it was clearly just spam) it would be a windows virus and it could do absolutely nothing to your mac.
and is there something to purchase to prevent stuff like that happening.
don't bother. right now there are no os x viruses, spyware or adware. there are a few trojans but those you have to download and install by hand and provide your admin password in the process. you've done none of those things.
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I love it when a plan comes together - - H. Smith.

HT5242 Hello to everyone!I think that I have installed a virus to my mac because safari opens advertising sites all the time and Facebook stucks a lot.What i should do to make my mac as it was before?

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I'm new to the forum, so please excuse me if I didn't put this question in the right place.
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Edit: I found [this article|http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/patchyourself.htm] which goes into long form on my above summary.
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