lots of pop-ups, computer can't find mbam.exe, HELP!!

[mdarch]

Hi, recently (about 3 weeks ago) CA Security Suite (my anti-virus and firewall program) noted that it found a Trojan and had successfully quarantined it. I am sorry but I do not have the name of the trojan it found! I then decided to add an anti-trojan program and found Trojan Guarder Gold first, which found and removed about 20 "virus objects" at first scan and about 6-8 more randomly each week.

Even though I have kept up with these programs daily, about a week ago I started getting annoying pop-ups (which I close using either task manager or right click in the tray and select close). I then added AdAware, and although this found some objects the problem has persisted.

It has since progressed to opening random web pages when I expect to go to a webpage I select, and I know the webpages I regularly go to have never redirected before!

Also since the beginning of the pop-ups my CA Security Suite will not update, it just keeps saying that I need to reboot for security updates to take effect, but the updates NEVER take effect!

So I then found MalwareBytes via CNET Downloads, and tried to install it. Well it installs, but every time I try to run the program either the flashlight search icon comes up and it says mbam.exe not found, or I get errors and exceptions.

I tried to follow some of the directions in other topics posted here but I realize that they are very specific to each computer and problem, so I thought I would ask for help instead of ruining my computer further!

By the way, I am a novice at best, so I apologize in advance!!!

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