My Mac book pro has been infected by findgala; how can i get rid of it?

Cannot get rid of this bloody virius....would appreciate it if someone could show me how to burn this out of my system? I'm not the most up to date person in regard to how my Mac works, so any advice will need to be dumbed down a little.
Thanks

Backup your data off the machine to a external storage drive, do not use TimeMachine or bootable clones, disconnect.
Unistall Chrome and/or Firefox.
Head to System Preferences and create a new Admin account, log into it and delete the first one, reboot then recreate it.
Log into the originally named account, use ClamXav to run a scan on the external drive and transfer just files back into Pictures, Music, Documents etc folders, nothing into Library!, don't erase the external drive.
See if your problems continue, and if they do then your looking at infection in your Admin privledged folders, thus a command r or commnad option r held at boot to erase the entire Macintish HD partition and a resinstall of OS X from Apple's servers, need your AppleID and password.
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