#Mac os news explorer mac os#
#Mac os news explorer pro#

Disinfectant is wonderfully well made and easy to use, but it cannot detect macro viruses targeting IE, Outlook Express, and Microsoft Office. You are using an old OS, so you will be downloading old apps, and some of those may still carry a payload of an old virus. There are no new viruses for the Classic Mac OS, so why use an antivirus app? And wouldn’t Disinfectant be enough? Nope. Unless you really have to, in which case you can choose which cookies to keep with Cookie Dog, to make automatic log-ins and such possible for selected and trusted sites. Yeah, delete cache and do not eat the cookies – those are bad for you. I have downloaded a lot of rare share/freeware in English for the 7.6.1 from there in the past, so if you don’t mind figuring out the log-in/subscribe, please do. There is some info that Cookie Dog 1.2.x should run from 7.5 and up, so you could try it first, as the site where 1.1 is still available just started to ask for a log-in – in Italian. Semi-manual deleting is available for users of Aladdin Spring Cleaning 3.5 (long discontinued), which can also be found as an add-on in Norton SystemWorks 1.0 ($10 from FastMac). Unlike some other browsers, IE cannot delete cookies and clear its cache by itself – and deleting manually ain’t no fun.

#Mac os news explorer pro#

The security loopholes of IE were fixed in 5.1.7, but here are two apps you will want to use anyway: Cache Killer Pro II ($14 shareware) and Cookie Dog 1.1 ($6 shareware). It is nice to be anti-Microsoft, but don’t cripple yourself just for the fun of it, as there really is no substitute for IE 5.1.7 with these versions of the Mac OS.

#Mac os news explorer mac os#

(If you’ve tested it in Mac OS 8.6, please share your findings in the comments.)Īfter some mathematical help from fingers and toes, you will find the answer for the question to be: Use IE 5.1.7 with Mac OS 7.5.5, 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.0, and 8.1.

Update: Classilla has replaced WaMCom as the best port of Mozilla to the Classic Mac OS, fully supporting OS 9 and probably compatible with OS 8.6 as well. (iCab 2.9.9 is nearly as compatible as IE 5.1.7, but the CSS is not fully implemented, so turn it off.) Here is a simple answer: Yes, from System 7.5.5 through 8.1 – but in OS 8.6 go for WaMCom ( download WaMCom here), in OS 8.5 use iCab 3.0.3, and if you are running 7.1 through 7.5.3, use iCab 2.9.9b. These should work in Mac OS 8.1 as well, but in some cases 7.6.1 needs the aforementioned mods – and with System 7.5.5, you’re on your own, as I have not done any testing with it. I recently wrote some short articles on running Internet Explorer (IE) 5.1.7 in OS 7.6.1 (with the help of the Appearance Manager 1.0.4 SDK) and ResEditing OS 7.6.1 to believe it is OS 8.1. That is the way I am doing it myself, but the stuff here could help you, even if you’re running a different version of the Mac OS.