What is it with these Apple Curser Ads?

These advertisements just started popping up this morning, 4/18/10 on my computer. They are tied to the curser someway. They block what I am trying to read and I find them very irritating!!
Anyone know how to turn them OFF???
Jack Perry

It looks like an Apple implanted program/virus of some sort or I wonder if they were running some sort of test on some computers.
That's a bit of a tinfoil-hat idea. Whatever you're seeing, it's not something that Apple is doing to spam you with ads... that sort of thing is counter-productive, as anyone intelligent knows, and Apple management is certainly not stupid. Not to mention that it's absolutely, completely opposite to every user-interface philosophy Apple has ever expressed.
Whatever's going on, we're going to need more information to help. We need screenshots and we need more information about the context in which you are seeing these things. In particular, you may want to pay attention to what page is loaded in Safari when you see these things... I know you said you aren't using a web browser at the time, but it's possible something has gone wrong and your machine is showing tool tips inappropriately.
Tool tips are little yellow boxes, like what you describe. They are meant to be used for help text. One common use is a title attached to a button or link on a web site. For example, when writing a message on these forums, hover the mouse over the text formatting buttons above the main message text field. Are those something like what you are seeing?

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