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Can't open Adobe.com website in IE7 or Firefox..????

danmanchester
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Hello everyone,

For some strange reason that I can't work out..I cannot get www.adobe.com to open in either IE7 or firefox - just that one website, every other website in my favourites is fine.

adobescreenshot.jpg

I'm running Vista home premium and not had any problems at all, using the windows firewall.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Dan.
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  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
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    works fine for me in FF2 on win xp

    see if you can get onto the adobe's site by looking at it through googles cache
  • danmanchester
    danmanchester Posts: 1,273 Forumite
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    No, I still get a "Internet explorer cannot display the webpage" message. :confused:
  • jem16
    jem16 Posts: 19,831 Forumite
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    I'm using Win XP and IE7. Adobe.com is fine with me.

    Have you a router to connect to the internet?
  • danmanchester
    danmanchester Posts: 1,273 Forumite
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    jem16 wrote:
    I'm using Win XP and IE7. Adobe.com is fine with me.

    Have you a router to connect to the internet?

    Yes I'm using a router connected by ethernet. I'm sure I've connected in the last week or so because I downloaded Adobe reader 8. It;s just puzzling me why this one website won't connect for me.
  • jem16
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    Probably unlikely to be your router that is blocking the site but you never know. Have a look at your router's admin pages.

    The other possibililty is your ISP as some use a transparent cache.
  • danmanchester
    danmanchester Posts: 1,273 Forumite
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    Well I haven't changed any settings in my router configuration panel though I have left it on connected for a couple of days. Will reboot the router and see if that does anything.

    As for ISP...well I'm with AOL (:o )...but I don't use any of their software at all, I just connect with username/password in router.
  • Phil51
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    Dan, disable the Windows Firewall and try again. Do you have a third-party firewall like Zonealarm? If so disable that and try again
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  • danmanchester
    danmanchester Posts: 1,273 Forumite
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    Phil51 wrote:
    Dan, disable the Windows Firewall and try again. Do you have a third-party firewall like Zonealarm? If so disable that and try again

    Well.. I haven't found another firewall that will run on Vista yet, so am a bit wary of disabling the windows firewall and going online.
  • Phil51
    Phil51 Posts: 786 Forumite
    Dan, it's only for a quick test to see if the Win Firewall is preventing connection. You can put it back on as soon as you have tested
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  • danmanchester
    danmanchester Posts: 1,273 Forumite
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    Interesting...turned off the windows firewall for a few seconds and tried - still same result - can't connect to adobe's website.

    Lost :p !
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