Annoying random pop-ups

[lottaproblems]

I am a Mozilla user, just to get that out of the way. I thought I was armed to the hilt (SB S&D, ZoneAlarm, AVG), but I think I accidentally let something through my firewall.

What is happening is I am getting random pop-up windows, and they seem to come when I use Google for searching. I noticed when I was looking up, for instance, Steven Weinberg, that the URL in the pop-up had "Steven+Weinberg" within it, but the pop-up window had no relevance whatsoever to that search parameter.

This might seem useful to whoever knows about this. Occasionally a window pops up with the following URL, and it really arrives nowhere:

http://89.188.16.28/dot.gif/?ver=112&cmp=profiling4&uid=4C686C7EDAB511DDBB42168440CFFFFF&guid=35930A24E79A415BAE215A760EAEB770&affid=168440&rid=zdez&m=ish6&revid=9878&lid=suggestqueries.google.com%2Fcomplete%2Fsearch%3Foutput=firefox%26client=firefox%26hl=en-US%26q=Mozilla&uqs=212&s=0&c1=212&c2=0&uid_track=323bf7a6-803d-45dc-95c3-2c15cb910eac&br=firefox

The word "profiling" has me a little worried, as it would seem my search habits are being profiled.

Also, I do have a Firefox pop-up blocker.

Please HELP!

[lottaproblems]

Sorry, I had to select the option that kept the program here from parsing the URL

Here is the entire URL that appears:

http://89.188.16.28/dot.gif/?ver=112&cmp=profiling4&uid=4C686C7EDAB511DDBB42168440CFFFFF&guid=35930A24E79A415BAE215A760EAEB770&affid=168440&rid=zdez&m=ish6&revid=9878&lid=suggestqueries.google.com%2Fcomplete%2Fsearch%3Foutput=firefox%26client=firefox%26hl=en-US%26q=Mozilla&uqs=212&s=0&c1=212&c2=0&uid_track=323bf7a6-803d-45dc-95c3-2c15cb910eac&br=firefox