diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
index 9122cf18..d0b339c4 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class ExtractorHTML extends ContentExtractor implements InitializingBean
       "(?is)<(?:((script[^>]*+)>.*?</script)" + // 1, 2
       "|((style[^>]*+)>.*?</style)" + // 3, 4
       "|(((meta)|(?:\\w{1,"+MAX_ELEMENT_REPLACE+"}))\\s+[^>]*+)" + // 5, 6, 7
-      "|(!--.*?--))>"; // 8 
+      "|(!--(?!\\[if).*?--))>"; // 8 
 
 //    version w/ problems with unclosed script tags 
 //    static final String RELEVANT_TAG_EXTRACTOR =
diff --git a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
index fae65d52..5fc684e8 100644
--- a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
+++ b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ public class ExtractorHTMLTest extends StringExtractorTestBase {
 
         "<img src=\"foo.gif\"> IMG",
         "http://www.archive.org/start/foo.gif",
+        
     };
     
         
@@ -379,5 +380,32 @@ public class ExtractorHTMLTest extends StringExtractorTestBase {
         assertTrue("outlinks should contain: "+expected,
                 CollectionUtils.exists(curi.getOutLinks(),destinationsIsPredicate(expected)));
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * HER-1998 
+     * @throws URIException 
+     */
+    public void testConditionalComment1() throws URIException {
+        CrawlURI curi = new CrawlURI(UURIFactory.getInstance("http://www.example.com/"));
+    
+        CharSequence cs = 
+            "<!--[if IE 6]><img src=\"foo.gif\"><![endif]-->" +
+            "<!--[if IE 6]><script src=\"foo.js\"><![endif]-->";
+
+        ExtractorHTML extractor = (ExtractorHTML)makeExtractor();
+        extractor.extract(curi, cs);
+        
+        Link[] links = curi.getOutLinks().toArray(new Link[0]);
+        Arrays.sort(links); 
+        
+        String dest1 = "http://www.example.com/foo.gif";
+        String dest2 = "http://www.example.com/foo.js";
+
+        assertEquals("outlink1 from conditional comment img src",dest1,
+                links[0].getDestination().toString());
+        assertEquals("outlink2 from conditional comment script src",dest2,
+                links[1].getDestination().toString());
+        
+    }
         
 }