Thanks for trying to help, pcbtmr.
I long-pressed home and there was nothing. Menu-settings... running apps showed nothing new/different either. When I pulled down the notifications, it said something about an unclaimed prize. I clicked on that and the browser opened some prize page that I of course did not click on. It said "Android User Rewards" on the top. I googled "Android User Rewards" and did not find anything that seemed to help.
The url didn't show in firefox but I went to the menu and clicked on "share this page" and I emailed the url to myself. This is what I got:
Attention Android User!
I went to that site on my desktop and viewed the source for that page but didn't find anything there helped me.
Anyone have any other ideas? BTW, these popups on the notification bar do not happen that often. Over the past three days it may have happened 3-4 times but I still want to get rid of it.