Computer Virus

I made a stupid mistake today. I have g-mail and have my AOL mail imported to g-mail. Early this morning i received notice that g-mail refused to import a mail from AOL that was from United Parcel Service due to being suspicious. I logged onto my AOL account and looked in my mailbox. There was a mail supposedly from UPS stating that a package had been sent out for delivery and that it was being returned to the UPS facility to be held until I pick it up. It had a link to click on to check the status of the package and since I had not ordered anything that I could remember I clicked on the link to see what it was. My virus checker popped up and stated that this was a suspicious mail and warned me not to open it. Did I listen? No. I told it to allow the link and when it opened there was a warning that my computer was under attack. A pop up box from "Win 7 Security 2011" started listing all of the supposedly viruses infecting my computer. It stopped my computer from accessing the internet and wanted me to purchase the program from Win 7 Security 2011 to rid my computer of the viruses. The first thing I did was run my anti virus to check my computer. It found no viruses. The program deleted files necessary access the internet so there was no virus detected. I then did a restore to a previous date before the attack and deleted all of the files downloaded after that date and to bring my computer back up to a period where it worked as it should. That worked. I had a restore point from last Friday so I did not loose a lot of data. All is well now. I would be the first to warn anyone of opening any suspicious e-mails and to delete them. I don't know what I was thinking. I should be punished.

I've rec'd similar emails saying a package was on hold, etc, etc. I delete them w/o opening them, and pretty now much have anything that comes through that is not on my list of contacts go directly to the junk mail folder. If I do get one that I don't recognize, I go ahead and delete it. I also do a Quick Scan before I shut my computer off every night. Lots of tracking cookies showup each time, and my installed program automatically deletes them.

Im still waiting on the fedex package that was sent from my aunt in Britain. Just had to send a check to help it clear customs, man I hope its worth the money i sent!!!!