Malware and How To Remove It

Hi all!
I seem to have picked up some pretty tenacious malware on a sketchy download - should have been more cautious! Anyway, I would really appreciate some help in ridding myself of it. Essentially, it seems to have taken over my browsers. I uninstalled Chrome but it seems to be on Safari as well.
Here are some of the problems I have been facing:
Though my default search page is Google, it repeatedly redirects me to Yahoo and changes my preferences.
Often, a random unwanted tab opens up (often pornographic) at the same time as another webpage.
On Chrome, though not on Safari, random words are URLd. If I accidentally scroll over them, a pop-up widget-like window appears showing "similar results" over the web.
As far as I have been able to tell, this only occurs on Wikipedia, but the webpage is crowded with pop-ups! The set-up (not the content) is often the same, so I took a screenshot for reference:
Those are the most glaring symptoms I can think of.
I have a MacBook Pro with 10.9.2 installed. Please let me know if you need any more specifications (and if this is the right forum to be posting in!!)
Thanks in advance!!

That's not malware. Could be adware. See:
http://thesafemac.com/arg <-- Adware Removal Guide
http://thesafemac.com/art <-- Adware Removal Tool

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