Try downloading Adaware and running a full scan. It is an anti-spybot product. I have found that Adaware will find a lot of things that normal antivirus programs miss. A lot of web-based trojans. These can actually affect web browser performance on many sites.
That being said, I have not found Audiogon forums to be that noisy on ads and performance. In my experience, avsforums had gotten really bad. It was so bad that it would take just about 30-45 seconds for a web page to load because there was so much crap all over the place. I think they cleaned up a lot of it because it’s not so bad now, but a year ago it was absolutely unusable.
That being said, I have not found Audiogon forums to be that noisy on ads and performance. In my experience, avsforums had gotten really bad. It was so bad that it would take just about 30-45 seconds for a web page to load because there was so much crap all over the place. I think they cleaned up a lot of it because it’s not so bad now, but a year ago it was absolutely unusable.