Mike Easter wrote:

> > Since Win 98 and/or Win 98 SE includes IE6 Browser,
>
> I strongly recommend that a W98se user not use the primitive and
> highly insecure browser IE6 SP1, the most recent v. of IE6 which
> W98 can use.

Win-98 runs exactly the same version of IE6-sp1 as does Win-2K.

And because Microsoft is still supporting win-2K, they are also
releasing IE6-SP1 rollup patches and fixes for it.

And those same rollup files have been applied by many win-98 users since
the "official" end of win-98 support back in July 2006.

Win-98 users should not be using IE6 for the same reasons that Win-2K or
XP users should not be using IE6 - because it's a horrible browser that
breaks many web standards. Firefox 2.0.0.20 is the last FF version to
run on un-modified win-98 systems, and it's a far better browser (as far
as page-rendering goes) then IE6, and has been for the past 2 or 3
years.

The use of KernelEx helper on win-98 systems allow those systems to
install and run many apps that are marked as "2k or XP only", such as
Firefox 3.x and many others.

Also note that Norton AntiVirus 2002 is a satisfactory (if not
preferrable) AV app for win-98. Contrary to what is stated on
Symantec's website, NAV 2002 can be updated via the "Symantec
Intelligent Updater" package (last time I looked it was 70 mb in size).
This will update both the scan engine DLL's and virus signature files.

The bloat that NAV became known for did not really start until the 2003
version, and became progressively worse each year after that.