Huh?
Every article I go to has various words or phrases underlined in brown and they link to ads. What is going on?
If you can handle zip files, get this and run it. It'll make a Notepad file of everything that's running in the background. Copy and paste it here. (It's a small file, less than 60 kb's).
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/startuplist.zip