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Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X
CWmike writes "Adobe on Wednesday released Reader X, the next version of its popular software that includes a 'sandbox' designed to protect users from PDF attacks. Protected Mode is Adobe's response to experts' demands that the company beef up the security of Reader, which is aggressively targeted by attackers. Calling the sandbox a 'new advancement' in protective measures, Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of security and privacy, admitted it will not stymie every attack. But he argued it will help. 'Even if exploitable security vulnerabilities are found by an attacker, Adobe Reader Protected Mode will help prevent the attacker from writing files or installing malware on potential victims' computers,' Arkin said in a post to a company blog late on Thursday."
You've got to be kidding, adobe has NEVER made a well-designed product that I've seen.
They had an old text processor for Unix--that may have been one of their better products ever, but it had an upside-down menu system that drove me crazy because the menus were all designed to "Tear off" so the most often used functionality was at the bottom of each menu.
ATM--adobe type manager--one of the first apps that would widely destabilize windows (this was around the time of windows 3). It was horrific and unnecessary, but some apps required it for some god-awful reason.
Adobe Reader plugin--One of the only two apps that has always, throughout it's lifecycle, destabilized a browser. Even now if you click on a link for a big, slow PDF, the reader plugin will more likely than not hang your browser. This is the only app that I've had crash ALL of chrome, not just it's window. (The other major piece of FAIL in the browser plugin arena is Flash--I was a little perturbed when Flash started to annoy me more than Adobe because it was defocussing my hatred, luckily Adobe solved that by buying Flash)
They also have a crappy overly large, overly expensive and inflexible web development environment.
Nothing but hate, all the way down.