I'm probably safe but can someone explain what I've just seen?

From: B. Chernick (BChernick_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:46:02 -0700

First I'm sorry I can't provide greater detail, but what happened was that I
got careless and accidentally visited a website supposedly crawling with
spyware (emp3world.com). Basically I got suspicious about what I saw,
googled the site and found some hits associating it with something called
'Dial 300263 executable'.
I immediately physically disconnected from the phone line and did complete
scans with eTrust EzAntiVirus and AdAware 6, both of which found nothing.

1st, can I stop hyperventilating?

2nd, I thought I had clicked on emp3world but when I looked at the dropdown
list of the Back button, I found that another website had somehow been
inserted inbetween the current site and my Google search:
www.cashventure.com/sgo.ph?id=4.

Can someone explain what happened here? I am a programmer but not a hacker
or a web expert.

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