Ultimately, it is getting more and more difficult to tell these malware pop ups apart from the real mccoy. I advise, if you get a pop up saying, for example, to update your Adobe Flash player; you go to the Adobe website (without clicking on said popup) and download any update there.
Hope this helps and glad you're getting it sorted
EDIT: this thread may help:
http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...urity-faq.html