+1 spyware and/or virus.
We don't want anyone to leave upset, and I know that Mark would not let popups on this site in any form, ever. He was very strict about that when selecting advertisers. The only issue we've had before, which I belive is changed now, is the old home page at
www.zilvia.net had a poll on it, hosted free by some people that added popups to it. I have always entered zilvia forums directly, but I'm pretty sure that the poll was taken down due to the popups.
-Jeff