End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support soon

[Guest Dan]

It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be coming

sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98 Second Edition

survived the attack in September 2007 when I was connected to the Albuquerque

Public School Network via Virtual Private Networking and a fully updated

Windows XP Professional was toast aka in this case annihilated. Yes, this

news is now a year old but more critical than ever. Fortunately, Microsoft

is now getting a clue and developing a new source code but it is very

secretive of course due to Intellectual Property concerns and of course

Microsoft does not want to take away from sales of Windows 7 which will have

new and exciting features but still at its root and core is NT. Yes, I know

lots of the code has been updated and improved but the underlying security

and safety has been weakened. If you research at secunia.com you will see

that Windows NT 4 and Windows 98 Second Edition are about the same but in

terms of functionality like USB 2.x with 3rd party support, 98 Second Edition

is the best. Anyway, my post today is about how Mozilla Firefox 2.x is

slated for end of year to terminate support. Now sadly Sun Java is in

transition to end support of Sun Java 5 which is scheduled for 30 October

2009 currently. So, there are 2 main dates now in play of December 2008 for

Mozilla Firefox 2.x and October 30, 2009 for Sun Java. It appears that using

Windows 98 Second Edition for 'Net Acess will bear increased risks at the end

of 2009 and into 2010. The solution appears to me to be now to build up your

external security with the appropriate hardware router, software like

Spywareblaster which imo is currently awesome, minimize use of IE 6 and

expect denial of service errors with continued use of IE 6 but you can indeed

try to apply patches from Windows 2000 by breaking them down and applying

them as 98 Guy mentioned in the past and it does work but the question is at

what cost to IE browsers effectiveness. I would appreciate your comments on

this post and what are your thoughts in safeguarding 98 Second Edition on the

'Net today and in the future and please no time to update to Windows XP or

Vista or Ubuntu Linux since I currently extensively use XP and to a lesser

extent Vista on my laptop. Finally, I am now beta testing IE 8 because of

all the problems I had with Internet Explorer *.dll hell and removed and

clean installed Mozilla Firefox 2.x then updated to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16

right away and that seems to have taken care of my needs for now but because

of its stability and especially backwards compatibility and a fairly full

fledged MS-DOS I will continue to use 98 Second Edition with my 512 megabytes

of ram on an Intel Pentium 4 dual-core chip that XP recognizes but 98 SE only

recognizes the single core which is fine because I don't need to use the dual

core abilities in 98 Second Edition because it is so fast. This is

definitely why being able to fully customize and working on your machine

rules. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers for my attempted shot at

A+ certification soon. I have not passed it yet but of course have taken

some computer courses, read lots of computer magazines, tested stuff myself,

(usually on my own machine at the cost of the machine -- kinda of reminds me

of Gary but I am sure not as many times as him) and lots of Microsoft

articles as well as other technical articles. I am no expert and do not

claim to be one and only want to offer a voice to the average consumer

because of the force feeding the way I see it of trying to be told that the

Microsoft NT like 2000, XP and Vista are the only way when there is old

school 98 Second Edition and Ubuntu Linux out there as well as many other

options but those are my current 2 favorite operating systems.

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support soon

 

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Dan wrote:

> It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be coming

> sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98 Second Edition

> survived the attack in September 2007 when I was connected to the

> Albuquerque Public School Network via Virtual Private Networking and a

> fully updated Windows XP Professional was toast aka in this case

> annihilated...

[Guest PCR]

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support soon

 

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

| http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

 

[ROTFL]. I like that model-- it has a nice glow!

 

| --

| ~PAÞ

|

| Dan wrote:

|> It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be

|> coming sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98

|> Second Edition survived the attack in September 2007 when I was

|> connected to the Albuquerque Public School Network via Virtual

|> Private Networking and a fully updated Windows XP Professional was

|> toast aka in this case annihilated...

 

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Thanks or Good Luck,

There may be humor in this post, and,

Naturally, you will not sue,

Should things get worse after this,

PCR

pcrrcp@netzero.net

[Guest Dan]

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support so

 

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support so

 

LOL, Thanks Robear. <smile>

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

> --

> ~PAÞ

>

> Dan wrote:

> > It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be coming

> > sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98 Second Edition

> > survived the attack in September 2007 when I was connected to the

> > Albuquerque Public School Network via Virtual Private Networking and a

> > fully updated Windows XP Professional was toast aka in this case

> > annihilated...

>

>

[Guest letterman@invalid.com]

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support soon

 

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:21:01 -0700, Dan

<Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be coming

>sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98 Second Edition

>survived the attack in September 2007 when I was connected to the Albuquerque

>Public School Network via Virtual Private Networking and a fully updated

>Windows XP Professional was toast aka in this case annihilated. Yes, this

>news is now a year old but more critical than ever. Fortunately, Microsoft

>is now getting a clue and developing a new source code but it is very

 

I actually feel safer using Win98, than I would using XP or Vista.

Nobody writes viruses for Win98 anymore........

Their target is XP and Vista.

I dont use any firewalls, or active virus scanners. I use IE5.5.

I have never gotten a virus using Win98.

I manually scan for viruses every few weeks, that's it.

 

On the other hand, I have gotten spyware, but I dont think anyone can

avoid that no matter what OS they use.

[Guest Dan]

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support so

 

Re: End of Life for Windows 98 Second Edition 3rd party support so

 

Have you used Spywareblaster and kept it updated as well as other

anti-spyware tools, letterman?

 

"letterman@invalid.com" wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:21:01 -0700, Dan

> <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

> >It looks like the end of life for Windows 98 Second Edition will be coming

> >sooner than later sadly enough despite the fact that 98 Second Edition

> >survived the attack in September 2007 when I was connected to the Albuquerque

> >Public School Network via Virtual Private Networking and a fully updated

> >Windows XP Professional was toast aka in this case annihilated. Yes, this

> >news is now a year old but more critical than ever. Fortunately, Microsoft

> >is now getting a clue and developing a new source code but it is very

>

> I actually feel safer using Win98, than I would using XP or Vista.

> Nobody writes viruses for Win98 anymore........

> Their target is XP and Vista.

> I dont use any firewalls, or active virus scanners. I use IE5.5.

> I have never gotten a virus using Win98.

> I manually scan for viruses every few weeks, that's it.

>

> On the other hand, I have gotten spyware, but I dont think anyone can

> avoid that no matter what OS they use.

>