I recently got a pop up virus on my Macbook Pro and wanted to know what I can do to see if I got a virus?

I was using a site to download music and when I clicked "download" I got a new window that opened up and it was a virus. I closed everything as quickly as I could, not really reading any of the pop ups that I was trying to close. So I have no idea what I did when I was closing everything. I did a scan using a virus scanner app in the app store and it came back clean but I still am not sure? It would be great to get some feedback to see what I can do further to check and make sure my mac doesn't have a virus...

It's not a virus. It's a JavaScript scam that only affects your web browser, and only temporarily.
Some of those scam pages can be dismissed very easily. Press command-W to close the tab or window. A huge box will pop up. Press the return key and both the box and the page will close. If that doesn't happen, continue.
From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security
and uncheck the box marked Enable JavaScript. Leave the preferences dialog open.
Close the malicious window or tab.
Re-enable JavaScript and close the preferences dialog.
If the Preferences menu item is grayed out, quit Safari. Force quit if necessary. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. From the menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open your Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.

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