But it's a personal choice on whether you want to install it...It depends on your computer configuration and your internet use. The most current and safest would be the Sun Microsystems Java version. There are a couple of recent versions available but on Windows 98 SE I recommend installing Java 1.4.2_06 from the link below:
Click on the "Download J2SE JRE " download link in the "J2SE v 1.4.2_06 JRE includes the JVM technology" section, then accept the license, then choose the "full Windows Offline" version for download.:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Although it doesn't actually "overwrite" your Microsoft version, it will install so that it "takes over" for the Microsoft version and runs in it's place. You don't need to uninstall the Microsoft version. After the installation, go to the Control Panel, double click on the "Java Plug-in" icon, then in the "Browser" tab, make sure that your favorite browser is selected. If you don't like the new Sun version, you can simply uninstall it from Add/Remove Programs and the old Microsoft java will take over again.
Hope this helps.
Grif
I take the most important reason to upgrade to the "Sun Java" version is for "security" purposes? I presently have MS Java Ver. 5.00.3810,and everything seems tobe functioning normally,should I do the upgrade? Would it "overwrite" my existing version? My OS W98SE IE6.0 SP1

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