The "Avenue A" warning from Spybot is a false alarm, due to its overly-restrictive settings. Avenue A is a company/ad service serving ads on our site.

As far as the slow page loads, those could be related to a number of things, including your router/internet connection. It can also be caused by a clog somewhere between our end and yours, usually caused by the numerous virii and related problems affecting internet traffic.

Of course, sometimes a slow page is caused simply by our servers handling a lot of traffic, but we aren't experiencing abnormal load levels or anything similar at our end to cause your slowdown.