some possibilities which are sort of unlikely but all i can think of is that there was a banner or something that did a driveby install, but if your IE settings are set high enough you'd be warned, so that's probably not it. the other possibility could be that you had some adware 'sleeping' on your system or something that woke at the coincidental moment you were surfing around there. another possibility is that you had adware on your system that was blocked from action or broken from bad programming but got an 'automatic update', but if you're running a firewall then that's also pretty unlikely.
hope you figure it out. i know it would drive me nuts finding the cause.
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