Someone reported having popups from the esampler.tns-global.com
before at another forum.
This thread here.
He had one similiar to you
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http://esampler.tns-global.com/eSampler/writetest.html?BBCNews,BBCNews )
That's really strange. I don't understand it though.
But this is what you get when you visit the URL's.
This window has appeared to send a cookie, called 'eSampler' from TNS Interactive, to record that you have seen certain online content, such as an online ad. The data in this cookie will not be read unless you later agree to a clear online request from TNS. TNS operates a strict online privacy policy and no data is being collected from your computer.
Our apologies for any inconvenience this window has caused.
Are you using IE by the way ?
Then I searched "Taylor Nelson Sofres' because that's the title of the page. In general, it was a site that surveys uhm, internet traffic ? I'm not sure.