FLV pop-ups driving me nuts afer installing Flashplayer

I have installed Adobe Flashplayer on my system. Since installing, I am inundated with pop-ups for FLV Player wanting to be installed on my system. What is up with this? When I delete Adobe Flashplayer, I no longer get the pop-ups. It is very annoying and making my internet experience more than horrible. Help!!!

Thank you for that info! I'm not all that technically savvy.
Here are some screenshots of what I get.

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That's awesome G4 dude, thank you.
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http://www.thesafemac.com/arg/
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Hello
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Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
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