Microsoft Window Popped Up as I was browsing in Safari

I was on facebook browsing in Safari and all of a sudden the website closed and an apple task box appeared and said your computer has been infected with a virus, we will now perform a scan then there was an "OK" box to click. So being a new Mac user I did and an actual Microsoft Window popped up like it was in PC Doctor for Windows XP (Windows Shield) I then clicked stop and a setup.exe file was downloaded into my stacks another Apple task box came up and said this is a windows based file from "www.shotbox.com" are you sure you would like to open the file of course I clicked cancel but what the heck did this do or mean? I thought Macs were not susceptible to this kind of jargon and situations?

To post a new question, you need to go down to the lowest (most specific) level of the forum. You will see a link that says +Post New Topic+ toward the upper left corner. For example
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1110
No, you should not need to install anti-virus software. There are no known Mac OS X viruses. There are other types of malware, such as trojans, but those will require that you intentionally install something, and then ignoring the Mac OS X warning that something new that was downloaded from the Internet is being run for the first time. And then giving your user name and password to authenticate. There is no anti-virus software that will prevent you from intentionally installing something on your Mac.
If you want to periodically scan your Mac for known malware, you can use this free utility
http://www.clamxav.com/
For Snow Leopard, use the 2.0 beta version.

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