Curiouser and curiouser. I opened Steve's page in IE8 and found some links I never saw before, I also now see the boxes with the red "X".
In Firefox, I never saw the number of subscribers or the 4 links to Timber Tagger, CanCam, Hand Crocheted lace items, and Fix Registry. Looking at the HTML of the page, the links are there but aren't visible in Firefox. This is because I have used Ghostery to block trackers on all web sites. I'll enable some of the trackers for Steve's site only, so I can see more of the page.
Not seeing the "X"s, etc. is not a virus, but I suppose it could indicate a virus, if the trackers were not blocked.
Thanks,
Jim