What?  Why did you click this ad?  I don't care if you're the 10,000,000th visitor to the site, or want to optimize your Internet connection.

Just because it looks like something your computer popped up, or part of the web page with a box to type in or buttons to click, doesn't mean it is!

If in doubt, hover your cursor over the "box".  If it changes to a "hand" indicating a link -- all over the area -- than it's an ad to carry you off somewhere else.

Now close this window and return to our regularly scheduled programming ...