Another Security Question...

[watercooled]

Before I start, I have searched Google and have found nothing about this other than what I describe. I've also put dots in links into brackets to prevent them from being clicked...
Anyway, I was browsing the net the other day using Opera, my second browser because I had saved session in Firefox with lots of tabs so at the time, I didn't want to wait for them to open in order to browse. I was on digg, on a page about some guy who had a beehive growing from his BBQ and there was a link lower down the page posted by someone who claimed the same had happened to him. Without thinking to check the URL, I clicked the link and noticed I was redirected several times. I quickly closed the tab as I am suspicious of redirects - especially since one was to something like 'freemalwarescanner(.)com'. I went back to the digg page and the URL was to a domain of XXXXXXDO_NOT_VISITXXXXXworldnews-video(.)comXXXXXXDO_NOT_VISITXXXX. I Googled this URL and it is flagged as a malicious site. Am I likely to have been at risk clicking this link, and does anyone know why it is flagged? I am using KIS, btw.
Thanks guys

[Blastuk]

most of the hit and run malware is designed for IE anyways, you're prolly safe

[watercooled]

Thanks. From what I've heard Opera is very secure. Can't be worse than IE anyway lol. Is there any way I can disable automatic redirects (in Firefox)?

[Splash]

Depends on how the redirect is done, but NoScript will help.