Need Service Pack 2 for IE

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Donald G. Davis

I have Win98SE, with the default installation of Internet Explorer
5.0, and have been trying to view the .TIFF images on the U.S. Patent
Office Web site. The site requires a plugin to view these images, but the
plugin does not work, which, according to the site, is because of a bug in
IE 5.0. It has a Microsoft link to download Service Pack 2 which is said
to fix the problem. However, the MS link says that SP2 is no longer
available, and the SP3 on the site is said to work only in Win2000. Does
anyone here know where SP2 for IE 5.0, for Win98, can still be found?
 
In Donald G. Davis posted:
I have Win98SE, with the default installation of Internet
Explorer
5.0, and have been trying to view the .TIFF images on the U.S. Patent
Office Web site. The site requires a plugin to view these images,
but the plugin does not work, which, according to the site, is
because of a bug in IE 5.0. It has a Microsoft link to download
Service Pack 2 which is said to fix the problem. However, the MS
link says that SP2 is no longer available, and the SP3 on the site is
said to work only in Win2000. Does anyone here know where SP2 for IE
5.0, for Win98, can still be found?
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Install IE6 and avoid all the problems/bugs of IE5.
It's a much better browser version.

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FYIS.org/estore said:
In Donald G. Davis posted:

Install IE6 and avoid all the problems/bugs of IE5.
It's a much better browser version.
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In addition to IE6 fixing some problems seen in Version 5, IE 6 feels
substantially faster. I've gone from IE5 to IE6 on several different Windows
98SE machines, and a speed boost was evident on all. Hope you'll see the
same.
HK
 
In addition to IE6 fixing some problems seen in Version 5, IE 6 feels
substantially faster. I've gone from IE5 to IE6 on several different Windows
98SE machines, and a speed boost was evident on all. Hope you'll see the
same.
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Or, look at other browsers such as Mozilla Firebird and consider
running IEeradicator. There are some exploits that can bite you if you
have the older unpatched IE on your machine, _even_ if you don't use
it! IEeradicator is supposed to remove IE and hence, the threat that
now exists on your machine.

Either, or, or all three. Get a patched newer version of IE or
eradicate your old version and get Mozilla, or another non-MS browser!
 
There are some exploits that can bite you if you
have the older unpatched IE on your machine, _even_ if you don't use
it! IEeradicator is supposed to remove IE and hence, the threat that
now exists on your machine.
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The bugaboo being that IE is running in background at any time it is
installed. I sure wish someone would come up with a way to prevent this. I
wouldn't mind having IE installed, but I don't want it running unless I
tell it to.
 
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