Forgive me if I don't have much faith in a new version of Reader being any less full of potential exploits than its predecessors.
Maybe if they stopped filling what could be a very lightweight executable full of bloated "features" that very few of us will ever use or desire they might have more success in securing it. But that ain't ever going to happen. Still, for all I hate it, I've never found an alternative that played nicely with all the rubbish and not-so-rubbish software I have to deploy. If it wasn't for the Adobe Customisation Wizard, though, I would have collapsed into mindless gibbering catatonia long before now. On 18 October 2010 15:45, Joe Tinney <[email protected]> wrote: > Adobe posted an announcement for the next version of Reader/Acrobat: > > http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/2010/10/announcing-adobe-reader-x.html > > > > The interesting tidbit for me was the new Protected Mode (initially said to > prevent writes to the system per some set of rules). This is a Microsoft > sandboxing technique. Adobe says they’ve consulted with MS and Google’s > Chrome developers along with others to develop the sandbox for > Reader/Acrobat. > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/07/introducing-adobe-reader-protected-mode.html > > > > Preorder for Acrobat ends November 30th, so I’m guessing this would be > released by the end of the year. > > > > Most of the infections I’ve dug into at %WORK% have had some PDF > involvement so I’m really hoping this helps! > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
