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Adobe Gets Regular On Security Patches

Posted by timothy on from the can-of-prunes-every-three-months dept.

dasButcher writes "Adobe joins Microsoft and Oracle on regularly scheduled security patch releases. The first set of patches for Acrobat and Reader are scheduled for today, and Adobe will release future patch batches quarterly."

2 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Adobe Gets Regular by andrewd18 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In light of its age and recent back-end irregularity, Adobe Acrobat Reader has promised to start taking steady doses of Metamucil."

  2. Re:Only quarterly??? by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's not a fair characterization. They planned a security update to be released a month later. A MONTH. And they did suggest turning off a feature that never should have existed and is not trivial to turn off remotely.