Quote - I haven't seen any of the types of ads that some of you are describing, just normal merchant ads and some ads for 3D related software (e-frontier, etc). Is there a possibility that some of these ads could be a result of adware on peoples computers? I remember some people complaining about popups here and an Ad-Aware scan made them go away.

No, these aren't popups.  They appear in the same IFrame as the merchant banners and are banners, not popup ads.  In addition to that I use Mozilla-Firefox and between that and my firewall I get very few spyware/adware deposited on my computer. Maybe 4 files in a month.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi