software issues
Featured Stories Feed
- Firefox Friday — “Beta 2 is coming, and it'll break stuff” edition
- Twitter Tuesday - Twitter launches Earlybird, Beak shuts down, new Tweetie almost here
- Firefox Friday Five: Firefox Home for iPhone available, 'it's like you're really there' with (earth)QuakeyFox, India's first Web browser, the Mozilla app store… and more!
- Twitter Tuesday - Is Twitter about to start selling followers?
- Firefox Friday Five: 4.0 news round-up, 2 billion add-on downloads, Thunderbird 3.1, and making text editing on websites easier
- Twitter Tuesday - TweetUp buys Twidroid, renames it Twidroyd, gets it pre-loaded on Android phones
- Firefox Friday: invasive, all-inclusive interview with Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's community director
- Twitter Tuesday - Ads in third-party apps? Seriously?
- Understanding the Android Market security system
- Firefox Friday Five: 3.6.4, tabs-on-top, your own out-of-process plugins, HTML5 king of the hill, and making Firefox child-friendly!
This opens a can of worms and raises a question, how are Adobe Reader downloaders supposed to know that the version offered is not the latest? They apparently do not get that information on the Adobe Reader download page, nor are they informed about the insecure version on startup of the pdf reader.
Adobe seems to solely rely on the Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager, Adobearm which is configured as a startup process to launch with the operating system. This in itself is problematic depending on the computer system. Adobe ARM does not get executed before the next startup, which means that systems that run 24/7 will be insecure for that time, unless the administrator updates the program manually.
It is also inefficient if the computer user decided to block the program from being started automatically with the operating system. That’s highly understandable considering that Adobe does not provide local information about the startup item. A quick search on the Internet confirms the confusion as many users thought that the process was for ARM processors only.
Lastly, users who do not allow automatic updates on their system will also be left with an insecure version of Adobe Reader.
How to update Adobe Reader
There are two possibilities to update Adobe Reader. The first is to use the Help > Check For Updates option in the program itself. That’s obviously only an option if the computer is connected to the Internet as it will query Adobe servers to retrieve the latest version.
Метки: software