Hacked email

Run your antivirus and anti malware programs to be safe, and change the password to your email account. Could be as simple as a phishing attack.

I take it that it was an in-house email? not yahoo or Gmail or something to that accord?
If so why didn't your anti virus detect the virus when you opened it? if it didn't maybe there was no virus or maybe you didn't have that option on? if you did and it didn't detect it you need a better anti-virus detector. I use STOPZILLA but there are plenty of good virus detectors out there, be careful though some (I swear!) put viruses on your puter.

If you opened it up with some form of webmail service & not a windows based client you should be ok....
There are worms every now and then that auto spread like that, that people will embed the codes into the client/email
using java/scripts ect... to auto infect you upon opening the mail with the client.

As for you visiting that site...
That site is 2 years old and registered to someone in Mexico.
Looks like it/the domain name expired on Dec 22nd.
I went to it and viewed the source and there is nothing malicious in the source code I could see.
I think maybe your friend is mistaken if that *is where they think they got a worm/virus from,or just playing around with you.
Or someone obtained their password in some other form ....but obviously not from visiting that site.

However,if there really was malware on there and you are on a windows machine.... malwarebytes scanner is the ticket (malwarebytes.org).
Dowload it and set it up,then update it,boot to safemode and scan it,then delete what it finds,if it were to find anything malicious. Then like the others have said,change your password. The malware protector is also a good tool to keep running...to avoid those types of things.
It is very up to date and effective.
You can also use a firefox addon called no-script to surf with which will help protect you also....by not allowing any scripts to run in your browser,thus infecting you.


Here is screen shot of the site..
(to see full size & not blurry,right click ,view image then click with the + symbol)




This is who it is registered to...
Registrant:
DSP, S.A. DE C.V.
Juan Enrique Miranda Nava (Email Masking Image@prodigy.net.mx)
29 de Diciembre 32
Col. San Sebastian la Paz Texcoco
Texcoco
MEX,56170
MX
Tel. +52.5550044262
Fax. +52.5550044262


If you still have worries....about the original email you opened being malicious/infected in any sort of way.
If you want me to take a look at it ,you can send it over to me (' AnythingWeb@consultant.com ') and I will look at it.

I'd dump AVG and install Avast, then schedule a boot scan.

BUT, if you were able to install malewarebytes in the first place, then you are probably not very infected anyway. Prob just a minor spyware deal.

but I would defer to Eddy, he can see what happens BEHIND the curtain.

Hey Eddy, does anyone still use Spybot?

I havent used Spybot S & D ....for a while now.
I would assume it is still an active/updated scanner,prolly still one of the top ones out there that people use.
I've been using MalwareBytes for a few years now....and been happy with it.
And like you said,avast is also good,but it does detect some false stuff every now and then.

But if I cant get malwarebytes to detect something or remove it....I will normally just reformat.
Their pretty good with their updates and most zero-day malware is added to the database swiftly.