MALWARE ALARM- do i have it or not?

Yesterday my cuz was browsing a normally safe site when a safe link made a popup came up (although we hav blocked all popups).

It said 'Your computer may have a potential virus- download malware protection now'. She exited it, but it took her onto a website and began downloading itself. She exited internet explorer before it finished but i've heard this is a very clever virus so i doubt that closing it did anything.

The website is called scanner.malware-scan.exe. Our laptop seems fine tho. No humming, i can still save, but im using firefox instead of xplorer.. However access to my cookies is 'denied.'

I would like to know if this is real or a hoax. After seeing 1 guy's screenshots on his malware blog, my cuz says that happened to her. but i ran spyware doctor, and super-antispware... nothin. i heard this virus can lie dormant for weeks and THEN kick in.

anybody know any free malware destroyer programs?? heard spybot is good... what else. and also what can i expect from now?

and what

MALWARE ALARM- do i have it or not?norton

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Please try these:

SuperAntiSpyware:http://www.superantispyware.com/

Ad-Aware:http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw...