Why am I seeing popups in Safari

I have been seeing these strange popups in Safari on my ipad 2 running ios 7.
One says
setup.exe. 0 bytes
open in ...      open in Skydrive
the other one:
cannot install profile
Safari could not install a profile due to an unknown error. 
Any idea why these are appearing?

If these are native dialogs (not fake dialogs displayed in the web page) and if they are unexpected, you may be visiting web sites that are trying to automatically download malware.
The "setup.exe" file is likely targeted at PCs running Windows.  I would definitely not open the file in Skydrive, though, because you don't want someone on a PC to open the file later, not knowing what it is.
The error message about not being able to install a profile is more concerning, however, because Safari for iOS does support installing configuration profiles (*.mobileconfig) files.  Safari (or Settings) would have still asked you if you wanted to install the profile had it been valid, but you should always say "No" unless you expected to download such a file.
Note that there could also be more benign reasons for these to appear (for example, if you clicked on a download link for setup.exe for legitimate software in a mail message), but if they appeared unexpectedly during browsing, I would suggest that you be more cautious about visiting those web sites in the future.
Hope that helps.

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