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Can you ping the website?
- Go to Start
- Click on Run
- Enter the following, no quotes - 'cmd'
- Click on OK to open a command prompt/window
- enter the following, no quotes - 'ping adobe.com'
- Do you get a reply? I receive the following (the more important parts in bold), and I am able to access the site:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>ping adobe.com
Pinging adobe.com [192.150.18.60] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.150.18.60: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=242
Reply from 192.150.18.60: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=242
Reply from 192.150.18.60: bytes=32 time=73ms TTL=242
Reply from 192.150.18.60: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=242
Ping statistics for 192.150.18.60:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 47ms, Maximum = 103ms, Average = 68ms
If the site is not pingable, then it is possible that adobe was added to your hosts file, or added as a restricted website in a firewall (re: cyrnels post)
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