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Adobe Gets Regular On Security Patches
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."
Good for Adobe, but Acrobat is crap anyways. It takes forever to load up and uses way more system resources than it should. Foxit Reader is what you should be using.
Quarterly makes sense for non-security patches but for critical security patches I hope they go "off-cycle."
For critical security vulnerabilities, I would like a beta patch OR workaround ASAP and a tested patch as soon as practical.
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So, they're going to delay security updates until the next scheduled patch-o-rama?
Or are they going to release "critical" updates as needed, thus making a mockery of the schedule?
Either way, I find it hard to care one way or another. Can you find some way to tie this story to the OLPC, or Futurama?
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Although Quarterly is a start, it should be carried out on a monthly basis or at least have a plan for immediate release if an exploit goes wild.
Acrobat and Flash are some of the most used Apps second to MS products. They should at least be on par with their patching policy.
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"In light of its age and recent back-end irregularity, Adobe Acrobat Reader has promised to start taking steady doses of Metamucil."
Although it is good to see that Adobe is getting on a security release schedule, but they need to be better in patching their applications. The PDF flaw came up earlier this year they took far too long to release a patch, I recall patching my systems with private patches because Adobe took so long. The releases should be monthly or weekly if it is a serious vulnerability.
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
My first impression was "it's that time of month?"
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Ah, anyone remember the good ol' days of Adobe, when it was just a fucking reader??
Sorry if I'm being crass, but a damn PDF reader should not be 100MB worth of installer followed up with 20MB "patches". Damn Adobe v5 installer was 5MB, and guess what? v5 does everything I need it to do, and would likely suffice for 95% of Adobe users who do nothing more than view PDFs.
Everything else is going low-cal, low-carb, lite and dry, how about a simple PDF reader?
...the day after Adobe releases its security patches, for maximum effect (although its making quite an assumption that Adobe will get a fix out by the next quarter).
Being the #1 worst application for vulnerabilities, meaning that its market share makes it installed on 99% of all pcs, you would think there long list of vulnerabilities would have made this a necessity years ago, but it is good news, maybe they will be a little more
up to date with their unit testing, and develop better then average sandboxes to test all the drive by execution flaws they have.
"Adobe Gets Regular On Security Patches"
Is Adobe taking a fiber supplement? Cool! Maybe it will quit constipating my f*cking computer!
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Dont use acrobat, Foxit reader is great, and is much less of a resource hog!