Adobe Changes Its Tune On Forcing Paid Upgrade To Fix Security Flaws 90
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from the give-the-people-what-they-scream-about dept.
from the give-the-people-what-they-scream-about dept.
wiredmikey writes with a followup to Thursday's news that Adobe was recommending paid software upgrades in lieu of fixing security holes in some of its applications. After receiving criticism for the security bulletin, Adobe changed its mind and announced that it's developing patches to fix the vulnerabilities.
"Developing a patch, especially for three different applications, can be costly and time consuming. Developing these patches consumes development resources, then must run through a QA process, and the patch needs to be communicated and distributed to users. And for a company like Adobe with a massive customer base using its Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional, the bandwidth cost alone can be substantial. For a popular product that was just over two years old, providing a fix to address a serious security flaw its what customers deserve. And while Adobe may have originally tried to sneak by without addressing the issue and pushing users to upgrade to its new product, the company made the right move in the end."
Adobe Reader has a browser plug-in (Score:5, Informative)
why does an application like [Adobe Reader] need a system reboot, I wonder
Because Adobe Reader installs a plug-in into Firefox and IE. If either of those programs is running, even if in a disconnected session (Fast User Switching), an upgrade to a plug-in cannot complete because the plug-in's shared library is open for execution. And on some versions of Windows, I seem to remember that IE plug-ins can run inside Windows Explorer, and Windows Explorer is always running if a user is logged in.
Re:Windows Explorer integration w/Internet Explore (Score:4, Informative)
Nope. Not since IE7 and WinXP SP2. Explorer.exe and iexplore.exe are two independent processes.