How do you remove a virus from your macbook?

Hello
I think I may have a virus on my computer. When I'm online random words on the page are hyperlinked to a website claiming I won an iPad 2. The website is "BESTPROMOTIONSDAILY.COM". There is another site but I forgot the name. I have not clicked on any of the words that are hyperlinked.
Is anyone else having the same problem? If so, can you help me remove this problem? I dont know much about Apple's virus protection. I had the computer for a while and never experienced any virus, bug, malware etc issues.
If you need more information please contact me. Thank you.

Thanks to all who answered and are trying to help me.
Here are some screen shots of what I'm talking about. I cleared out the cookies from Firefox, but do not know how to clear out the CACHE. As you can see its happening in all the webpages I open.

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