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."

Acrobat Reader is crap

[deemen]

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 [foxitsoftware.com] is what you should be using.

Re:Only quarterly???

[Drakkenmensch]

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.

Too much time.

[Deathlizard]

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.

Re:Acrobat Reader is crap

[LordLimecat]

<quote>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.</quote>
Sounds like something thats a browser's job.  I had always understood PDF's purpose to be creating a "virtually printed" file--basically, how it appears in the reader IS how it will appear when printed.  Why the hell is javascript involved now?  Or is it people about 10 years ago completely forgot the point of a PDF and started using them instead of .docs?