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Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-like-the-dump-truck dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe will finally release the new version of its Reader software — which will include the much-anticipated Protected Mode security feature — next month. Adobe Reader X will include a number of other new features in addition to the sandbox feature. Adobe officials have been discussing Protected Mode for several months now and said early on that it would be included in the next version of Reader, but had never set a time line for the release of Reader X. Now, the company says the new version will be available in November, although no specific date was announced."

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  1. At Last! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At last ... the malware writers will have a new challenge, and just in time for those long holiday weekends. I'm betting they find a way around Adobe's "sandbox" before the end of the year. Adobe used to make very good software - now they make very exploitable software.

    1. Re:At Last! by JonySuede · · Score: 2, Interesting

      postscript is already turing complete...

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    2. Re:At Last! by ByOhTek · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Do you define the species of an egg by what produced it, or what came out of it?

      If the former, the chicken. If the latter, the egg.

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    3. Re:At Last! by RDW · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The really irritating thing is that if you do need the full Acrobat package you have to buy an upgrade as soon as your version is EOL'd, even if you're perfectly happy with its features, because there'll be no more security updates to fix whatever gaping vulnerability has been discovered that week. Since they release a new version about every two years, and only support it for 5 years from first release, if you buy a version towards the end of its release period you could have as little as 3 years before the damn thing is too dangerous to have on your system.

  2. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe they can make it a more reasonable size? Who needs a 60MB file reader?

  3. This is good but.... by mark-t · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... I'm still waiting on acrobat reader for x86_64 Linux. While there are other PDF readers for Linux, none of them that I've found work properly with documents that use layering features apparently only found in Acrobat.

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