Running latest Firefox in Win7 Pro and getting unwanted popups on startup. How do I stop and prevent?

This annoying pop-up has three blocks within the popup window. They change automatically from "build a better body", "find the girl for you", and other similar nonsense.
It occurs when I turn on my PC each morning, and stays there until I turn it off.
When I search for something, this pop-up is covered by what ever screen comes up as a result of the search, but when I'm done on the internet, my default screen comes up and there it is again.
How do I remove it permanently, and how do I prevent future pop-ups from sitting on my PC?
Thanks very much.
Noranna

hello, please try to [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems|reset firefox]] (this will keep your bookmarks and passwords) & also run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free free version of malwarebytes] and [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ adwcleaner] to make sure that adware isn't present in other places of your system as well.
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