My guess would be that this is the result of some pop-up blocker on your
system, which is turning the page references that would, otherwise, launch
pop-ups, into failed connections to the pop-up servers.

David Gillett


On 9 Aug 2004 at 7:34, Rosalie Linthacum wrote:

>   When browsing the web, I usually get an Alert box that comes up saying
> "Connection was refused when trying to contact ad.doubleclick.net" or
> qksrv.net, or mediafastclick.net or burstnet.com.  Those four sites are the
> most common with ad.doubleclick.net being 85% of the time.  I have to click
> on the X at least twice to get the Alert box to close.  The web page that I
> selected is already there on the screen, but the Alert box is over the
> top.  Is there some way that I can set my preferences that will avoid
> getting this Alert box?  It's a real annoyance.  I have Ad-Aware, Spybot
> and Norton antivirus installed and have allowed cookies, disabled cookies,
> tried various settings in the preferences to no avail.  I use Netscape
> 7.02.  I must admit that I don't have these Alert boxes if I'd use IE, but
> I prefer the format of Netscape.

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