Adobe PDF To Receive Updates
By Ipsit, Gaea News NetworkSunday, June 27, 2010
SAN JOSE (GaeaTimes.com)- Adobe PDF shall soon have it’s updates being released by the company in the upcoming week. Reportedly, the Adobe PDFupdates are a part of the critical security updates which the company has declared to release for all components of Adobe Reader. The company officials have declared that the updates shall enhance the performance of Acrobat Reader for all it’s users.
The Adobe PDF updates are in the form of cross-platform patches which are specially crafted to plug in a Flash associated vulnerability which is said to have been the target of the hackers. Adobe officials said that they have already received complaints about the Flash associated vulnerability and hence they plan to release the Adobe PDF updates in the next week. Reportedly, the first time Adobe fixed similar flaw for its Flash player was in the current month itself. The Adobe PDF patches shall function to update Adobe Reader 9.3.2 along with Adobe Acrobat for all major platforms like Windows and Macintosh. The previous versions like Acrobat 8.2.2 packages shall also be updated with the patch release. The Adobe PDF patches were all scheduled to be released on July 13. However, Adobe officials revered their decision to release the updates on an early note owing to the security threats.
All Adobe PDF users have been issued warnings about the vulnerability which is said to affect both Flash Player and Acrobat Reader. The Adobe PDF updates shall be released by next Tuesday which shall cover all recent and old versions like Adobe Reader 9.3.2. Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2.1 along with Adobe Reader 8.2.2 and Acrobat 8.2.2.1 for all Windows and Macintosh platforms.