In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Why did he send you a virus? He could have clicked on it just as well as you and infected his PC instead of yours.

That is something that I have discussed with him! He should have noticed that the email when he received it came from someone he did not know and it should have started bells ringing, particularly when it contained an attachment! He did infect his pc as he did click on it and could not see the document, which is why he sent the email to me to try and 'open' see the attached document! I fell for it because the email was coming from him and not from someone I did not know, thinking it was genuine I fell for it too!
Lesson to be learned!