That stupid ape was funny when you got it to say dirty things
And then 5 minutes later it was annoying as hell....Everybody looks like they got a piece of the puzzle covered...
A simple solution you might want to look at, is by going to your Control Panel>Add/Remove Apps/ and see if theres anything you don't recognize that may have been installed as spyware from other applications.
Another good application to stop popups on the net is the google toolbar, I find it handy every once in awhile....

Haha...bonzai buddy...*shakes head*