Error -3259 when dowloading podcasts

Hi, I had have this error regularly with itunes v7 and just installed v8 and still gets the same error; the podcasts are starting to download and then stop with this error poping up. I do not have a firewall and my antivirus is not activated. Anyone have an idea on how to get rid of this?
Thanks

I get this occasionally also. Most often when I am downloading other things outside of iTunes or keeping net connection busy somehow. 90% of time a restart on the podcast works. If not, then I delete the partial download and try again from scratch.

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Norton (Symantec) anything is bad, nut just turn off any AV software, as it, too, may have a built in firewall. Anyway, turn off any firewall, and AV software, and it should work.
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1. I went to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
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I am trying to download a few podcasts from iTunes, but am running into a few errors. Typically, it will start with fast download speeds, then gradually crawling to a stop, loading a few kb before coming up with an error. The first three say "stopped (err = -3260)", but the rest say "stopped (err = -3259)". I have no trouble downloading songs from iTunes.
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Possibly related, I have had trouble downloading mp3s online in general lately. I have tried both from Safari and from Firefox. However, using IE in parallels has worked so I haven't gotten around to trying to fix that.
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See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2799
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