"Unperfect" Employee

I am a facebook addict. I have tried to limit my time on facebook, especially at work, but I still find myself mindlessly wasting hours on pointless games.
I thought it was a little strange when a facebook friend sent me a link to a video. This particular friend never sends me messages, but I thought if it was good enough for him to send then it must be really good! So, not giving it a second thought I clicked through... and that's when the madness started.
Apparently it was a virus that had attacked him, and the message was sent to everyone on his friends list. Now that I clicked on the link it did the same to me. Not only that, but it started giving me pop-ups every 30 seconds. At one point I walked away from my desk only to come back and find a pop-up of some woman undressing. Keep in mind this is all happening on my WORK computer.
At this point I am sweating buckets! Not a year ago a few people were fired for downloading crap that has viruses. I'm starting to see visions of pink slips and unemployment offices in my head.
Now, I'm not a computer genius and I still have no clue what a "Trojan Virus" is, but I know that is what I had. I deleted my temporary internet files, deleted my cookies, increased my level of protection.... nothing helped. So off to the good ole' stand by I went.... www.ask.com I searched for "how to remove a trojan virus" and lo-and-behold I got a good response. BUT I don't have administrative rights at work... will it allow me to download the program?
Yes, it did! And best of all.... it actually worked! My job is safe..... for now.....