Pop-Up Ads: How Do I Get Rid of Them

I seem to have accidentally contracted some sort of virus on my MacBook Air (OS X Mavericks, 10.9.2) and am finding it very annoying to use normal sites as there are constant ads that pop up on any and every site. I have removed all extensions, downloaded Google Chrome after getting fed up with the ads appearing on Safari, downloaded AdBlock for both Safari and Google Chrome but the ads continue to appear. On some sites, I can see that some words are green, double- underlined and have a hyperlink to another annoying ad. Does anybody know how to get rid of this annoying mistake.

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