I don't want to freak anybody out if this is just happening to me, but I've noticed over the past few months that my malware protection software, Sophos, has been catching rather a lot of Trojans (especially seeing as I've never had any problems before), and it seems to happen most often when I'm here. I've also noticed it when I'm on deviantART, though. What happens is that I'll click on a link to go somewhere and a little box from Sophos will pop up telling me it's quarantined a Trojan. Meanwhile, I'll get a blue screen in my browser, Firefox 3.0.5, that tells me the action was illegal and blocked by something-or-other. I've gotten Adobe randomly opening and telling me it can't open a file because the file is damaged--Sophos doesn't like that, either.

I bring this up now because I just had the page I was looking at randomly turn to an X-Box ad twice. Clicking Back returned me to what I was looking at. I don't know what's up with that. Sophos didn't have anything to say about it.

So, clearly I need to take my laptop to campus' IT department and have them take a look at her, but I wanted to mention it just in case anyone else is noticing the same kinds of things, or in case they aren't noticing and they should be. I suspect it's related to the kinds of ads we get here, but I really have no idea. Any information would be really helpful.

~Neshomeh