Require help re. downloading stuff of internet

[I.Need.Help2006]

Hi, i really need help with my computer and will greatly appreciate it if someone could help, what it is everytime i go to download something from the interent recently it just stays on nothing like it doesnt download at all and after a while it comes up with something like website cannot be found, although everything i try and download it says the same so it cant just be one website, i really need adobe flash player and quicktime but it wont let me download anyfing..any suggestions? thanks

[I.Need.Help2006]

its comes up with this:

Internet Explorer cannot download file.com from www.computerhope.com

Internet Explorer was not able to open this interent site. The requested site is either unavilaible or cannot be found. please try again later

What you think could be the problem?

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