help with pop ups please!?

[Blahhh]

whenever i use internet explorer there is a pop up that comes up that links to either an ad site or a singles dating site. also when they pop up a little box at the bottom right of my desktop say shopping ads helper ads. does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it?

 

[Don]

This is a list of online scanners Safety.Live.com (This is microsoft's) Symantec.com Housecall.TrendMicro.com Comodo.com they are free and will remove them for you...Comodo.com offers manual disinfection and a free security suite

 

[sparkly]

Get AdAware and Spybot and run them both at least once a week. Both are free.

 

[cbsjohnson]

Sounds like it could be adware. Run Spybot Search and Destroy (free!) and AVG (free too). These seem to delete most of that junk for me. Good luck.