Dynamic pricer ads in Mac Osx

Hi
I am using Mac OSx 10.9.4 and safari 7.0.5.  I am getting dynamic pricer ads whenever i open any website. How do i get rid of them?Please help me out with this problem .

I have the same problem.Above links did not work for me to.
Your wireless router might be infected (compromised).
Number of LinkSys routers has been infected.
After I reset my router to original state I did not have any more problems .
Your Static DNS 1,2 and 3 should be empty

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