I have started to notice Google Ads rearing their head in the initial posting of a topic... I do not know if this is some nasty program that was installed on my computer or if other people were seeing it too.

Robes

Not a problem with your computer.

It is in the forum code. At this time they will only appear on the first post of a thread.

Do not panic, the porn-surfing you did last night did not cause this!

SWEET! I was afraid that it was that girl on girl amputee midget site did it to me!

Robes

So that must explain the mysterious "Google.com" dude that sometimes appears in the current users list. I was wondering what that was all about.

Cheers, Hydro

The "Google.com" user is actually the "google spider" doing its normal page-by-page crawl of "indexed" internet pages. When it is accessing this forum, it is "crawling" the pages and then adding the appropriate pages to its index (i.e. google searchers may access pages of the forum through its search engine).