Links within an email

I tried a search but nothing came up that answered this. I think I can explain this accurately.

I receive an email that has links to sites, such as a link to a joke, is it possible to get a virus when clicking on that link? This is not an attachment. I have Norton AV.

 

PeteC, That makes me feel a little better. Norton found a virus and I thought that's how I got it. I never open attachments without scanning them first.

Thanks for your response

 

Norton will sometimes tag any "unfriendly" code contained in a web page as being either a virus or (more often) a trojan. Should the "virus" have been located in your TIF, then it's probably the case that you have visited a page which included code designed to exploit one of the older (and now plugged) IE vulnerabilities.

 

brett, thankyou for that info