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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."

6 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Acrobat Reader is crap by deemen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Acrobat Reader is crap by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That glorified "doc reader" can do far more than you think, Adobe makes it possible to have a document in a file, with all of the features of a website.

      And that's a good thing... why,again? PDF is supposed to be a portable doc format for predictable, portable printing, not a blasted website.

  2. Only quarterly??? by davidwr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Only quarterly??? by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Quarterly makes sense for non-security patches but for critical security patches I hope they go "off-cycle."

      Once per quarter is already a huge improvement on their previous schedule of not at all even when thousands of computers were getting infected by virus-ladden rigue PDF files.

  3. Too much time. by Deathlizard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  4. 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."