[Desperate] Help with browser pop-ups

i've run my symantec anti-virus and spybot: search and destroy, nothing comes up.

i run mozilla and have stayed away from IE for a couple years now. recently though i've been getting a ridiculous amount of pop-ups in the IE browser, just randomly, even if there are no programs open.

NOW, I'm trying to write a paper that's due in an hour and half, and when i go to type in Word the cursor disappears (as if there's going to be a pop-up) but nothing happens. I just lose my cursor and I have to click where my last word was to continue writing. it wouldn't be that bad except it does it after every 3 to 4 words and i feel like pounding my head against the wall. i type a sentence only to find that it only typed the first word and a half.

it's taken a long time just to type this.

Someone help, i'd appreciate it SOOO much!

 

I sound like an absolute idiot, LOL.

Honestly I don't know how to explain it.

Someone just told me to download AdAware, which I just did and 30 seconds into the scan has found 642 "infections." I guess this was the answer, should've waited a couple minutes to start a new thread.

 

is that where they come from?

i keep getting really awful explicit pictures popping up.

i don't do the p*rn thing, maybe its from one of those torrent sites with the naked babe ads?