Can a virus be given through a link to your computer?

Today, I was reading an away message from a guy friend. Well at least I thought he was a friend but I do not think so anymore. Well, Okay, I think, he is upset. It is not the first time he has played these games with me. Like, not talking to me for a month or so. Well anyways, today, the first time he has been on-line in a few days he leaves an away message on his IM and it says I cant beleive I found (my screen name)'s picture, HAHAHA. So, of course I opened the link. the link was to a site, I think it gives you a virus. So when I get there it says by entering this site you agree to the terms and whatever, and then up above it says, if you have adware on your computer and you want to remove click here. But I saw no picture of me so I think maybe it is just a faulty link so I copy the link in my web address box, instead of just clicking on it, and the same thing comes up, but now I got a box saying something about a virus has been detected on your computer. Like trojan dropper, from my norton antivirus software but I ran a scan for viruses but nothing was found. I think my software blocked the viruses. I dont know why he is doing that, if he did that is immature and crosses the line with me. See another thing is, he knew I would check it because I always check his hyperlinks, just to see what he has up, and I guess he must of had a counter on it, and knew I checked it. He could of told everyone else not to click the link and that it was meant for me only. I also think he may of been putting like a spyware on my computer, and FYI, he is a computer science major and I dont doubt that he knows a lot of this stuff. Can someone put spyware on your computer? What info. could they get about you? What do yall think, any explanations, is it possible, do you think he meant to do this to be mean? Can you even do that? Wouldnt he have to make the web-site or something, I am confused.

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