PDF from single website opens as a .gif

I'm running Acrobat X and when I go to a specific website and attempt to open a document they have in .pdf format it fails. I noticed that when I attempt to save the document, instead of opening in the browser, it saves it as a .gif instead of .pdf. If I change the save type .pdf, either when saving or afterwards, and then try to open the document I get an error that it can't be opened, possibly because it's corrupted. I've tried the same site from other computers and it works fine. I've tried other sites from the same computer and they work fine. I've tried the "broken" site in Chrome and IE 9 through 11 and the behavior is the same. I've never seen this behavior before, and since it's for a single user on a single site it feels like a broken setting somewhere, not necessarily an issue with all of Acrobat. Has anybody seen anything like this or can give pointers on where to look for the solution?
Thank you in advance.

Bill,
I'm pretty confident they aren't named wrong because they work just fine from every computer except for this one problematic one. Here's the link: http://www.fppc.ca.gov/index.php?id=545&zoom_query=engineer&zoom_cat=23&zoom_per_page=10&z oom_and=0&zoom_sort=0. You can try the first document, called 12-178. I've tested with lots of them on this page but that one for sure.
Thank you for looking.

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