Safari keeps sending Pop-ups asking to add newsgroups to Shared Links. VERY ANNOYING!

Every 20-25 minutes I get a series of pop-ups from Safari asking if I want to add various newsgroups to my Shared Links. It is incredibly annoying and I have to click every single popup to continue to use Safari. Should I just switch to Google Chrome or Firefox or is there a way to stop this madness???
(I've tried a few things in Preferences, but to no avail!)
Mike

You most likely installed adware along with something else you recently installed.
You can either follow Apple's manual instructions for removing it, or use the free automated tool, AdwareMedic.

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Memory:          2 GB
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Removable Media:          No
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