SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

I have a subscription to PC World, and I often visit the web site, at http://www.pcworld.com I remember being able to work my way in with the Popup control on. But, more recently, it has been almost impossible to do anything there with 7.02, getting instant Alert of connection refused by ads.doubleclick.net. I sent a feedback to the the site Webmaster, and that's what he had to say.
<While the vast majority of our site visitors report no problem, a small
<number have reported a problem similar to yours. While your message
<indicates you have no settings which refuse Doubleclick cookies or ads,
<your description of the problem does seem to indicate that it may be
<related to ad-control, security or other plug-ins (such as ZoneAlarm,
<etc.). Some of the features of such plug-ins do involve complications <such as limited or no access to some sites, and in some cases (especially <for users of IE6) more serious effects such as browser crashes or system
<freezes.

I checked my set up, and I did not see anything unusual. My cookies are for the session, even including third party cookies. I even allowed doubleclick.net in the Popup controls, to no avail.
Most curious of all is the fact Mozilla 1.3 has no problems, while 4.78 had no obvious problem, but became unresponsive, I guess like IE6.
Could anyone verifies this?
I have had Zone Alarm for yeard. I have not used AdAware for quite a while, and Spybot S & S has nothing which was doubleclick.net.
But my connection is refused when I try to get into the doubleclick site. It is very odd.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (DJGM-i.net)