Safari is corrupted by MacKeeper

I am very frustrated with Safari. I got MacKeeper ad page (I don't know how) in Safari few days ago and now, each time I load a legitimate site, I get a page with advertising. I had to delete the page to get to the site that I wanted. I had to delete several Ad pages just to get here in this page. I have Adblock (which was working fine until few days), my settings are to block popup windows. I have deleted everything related to MacKeeper), I have reset Safari but nothing works.
I am quit sure that is a common problem that usera have experienced. Could somebody help me with this extremely frustrating problem? Thanks.

To avoid the problem in the first place, stop doing what you just did: downloading unknown, unnecessary software on the advice of a stranger on the Internet. That approach is not going to save you if you keep up the same behavior.

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