Should I be worried about a scam UK Gov website taking over an open tab on Chrome?

Hey all, just experienced this scam take over a browser window on my Google Chrome.
I can't remember if I closed the window manually or using command + w and I was wondering if it makes a difference.
A little pop-up came up after, and I clicked the "Leave this page" button. Cleared all history on both Chrome and Safari and disabled Java on Safari.
My browser wasn't actually blocked and nothing was in my Downloads folder.
Just making sure that it won't come back to bite me in the butt.
Don't usually follow through so thoroughly, but I have my final graduate school paper due in 48 hours so I'm just making sure my macbook isn't going to spontaneously combust on me!

UPDATE:
(I dont have the snow leopard disks, a certified tech and good friend set me up with some legit bootable USB drives and DVDs of mountain lion)
The CD/DVD install was a no go. After 3 hours I gave up watching the white screen and turned the computer off to continue investigating.
I figured the CD was too old or something, who knows.
I attempted to create my own USB bootable drive by pulling the contents off the CD because I cannot download large files. (It would take a whole day)
It was a sketchy process and I know I couldnt set up the USB into a pristine bootable drive so I kept having to test things, constantly forcing the computer to shut down and turn on to no avail.
At one point I got a fire wire cable and got it to show up on my wifes computer in target disk mode, but when I went to erase the partitioned drive, a error appeared saying it couldn't unmount, and since then, target disk mode will not show up on my wife's computer. I figured that constantly shutting it down caused more problems...
Finally, I found a new 8GB USB stick that a technician from apple helped to create a bootable Mavericks drive on, and for the first time the computer booted to the installation screen and began installing, However, after 10mins, it stoped and said the hard drive is damaged and needed to be restored.
I am doing one last Option Zero erase on the main drive, then I will partition a proper MacintoshHD in the correct format in hopes that this will clear all the crap that could have accumulated during testing. I will attempt to do a clean install of mavericks.
If I succeed I will run a Disc Verify and Repair, and a Disk Worrier report to make sure.
If this fails, I have a 1.5T External Hard Drive, (Seagate Free Agent GoFlex)
I can unload its data onto my other 2T external hard drive,
Format the Goflex to a suitable mac hard drive then take it apart and put it in my computer.
Since I cannot order a hard drive, does that seem like a good idea? or a really bad idea? lol

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