Office computer attacked by malware

Just posting what I noticed when my office Mac Desktop Pro was attacked today.
I had not visited what I would call questionable sites. I only visit the same regular sites which I have for years. Some of my web traffic was to corporate sites which included personal business, paying bills, encrypted stuff.
My office computer has never had any devices connected to it such as an iPod or iPad.
My internet connection at the office is behind a very good firewall.
First thing that happened was a pop-up with a fake system scan, then another which automatically started a download, at which time I may have clicked a button in the window, either cancel or close, but the download had started. I quickly force quit Firefox. Relaunched Firefox to see another pop-up which quickly hid itself to the dock. I quickly force quit Firefox again and relaunched it. This time Firefox asked if I wanted to restore the previous session or start a new one. I started a new one and no pop-ups this time. I did find a .part file on my desktop. Promptly put it in the trash and emptied it.
My guess is that the nature and style of the pop-ups, buttons on the windows and the download starting, suggests that this malware is web page based, needs user interaction and probably can't do any harm without the users password.
If it is web page based, and I only visited trusted sites today, my only conclusion would be that hackers have created ads that get served up through the many ad servers that many sites pull from, and initiate the attack this way, through trusted sites.

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    Subject :  I purchased DreamweaverCS6, installed ok then registered it on-line. Computer   running slow, malware sorted it out, since I re installed CS6, it asks for   registration, puts up 30 day trial,Flags up errors java.
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