I have been getting a lot of pop ups since I have upgraded to lion. How do I stop the pop ups?

I have been getting a lot of pop ups every time I get on the internet and especially if I do any kind of searches. I never used to get any on my mac and now all of a sudden, since I upgraded to OSX Lion 10.7.4 I am getting them every time. This is making me sick! I got a mac so I would never have to deal with this stuff...
How do I get rid of them?

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/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
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