Hi, Thanks for your reply..
I know screen shots would have been great but I completely panicked and needed to delete everything.
There was a note of the links (3.. I guess to correspond with the three red boxes from earlier when I clicked on the link like a fool) in the 'history' part of the web shield and not the infections.. (I have deleted that too now..so I can't repeat the action to get you the screen shots!
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There was nothing in the 'infections' log and a complete system scan revealed nothing and having deleted the twitter post to get rid of the link so no-one I knew would make the same mistake I did out of curiousity, there is no record of it having happened.
I got such a fright when the popups popped up! One was very long and two were smaller.. I actually can't remember a single thing they said - post traumatic stress maybe?! :? I needed to minimize them quick (the avast popups) so I could get to my dock on the right hand side of my computer to get in to avast.
So there is really no way of knowing until something happens because I can't remember and I didn't take screen shots... eekk! (hmmmm...)