Adobe punts fix for Reader, Acrobat holes battered by PC, Mac hackers Adobe has pushed out an emergency security update for its PDF viewing software Reader and Acrobat to plug zero-day vulnerabilities that emerged last week. The cross-platform update, issued yesterday, addresses flaws that were being actively exploited by miscreants to compromise and take over Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS …
In theory yes, if not actually slightly more secure due to the BSD nature of the Mach kernel, as nicked by his Jobsness while he was failing at NeXT.
In practice, considerably less so due to a) the way Apple are slow beyond belief to patch anything, b) a longstanding refusal to accept that their product is vulnerable in any way and c) a growing awareness on the part of malware writers that people who buy Macs have been assured that they don't need AV software, have a relatively very high disposable income and are so gullible that they were prepared to pay Apple's prices; a good sign in any prospective mark.
OS X is, mainly because of a) and b) considerably less secure in the hands of somebody who understands computers than any linux distro.
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I've un-installed Adobe Reader. I have Foxit on my system, but I read some comments here that there were some major security issues with it. So, I have set up PDF Complete to read my .pdf files, sandboxed and with full mitigations set up in EMET. Some others said the Sumatra was the safest and most lightweight .pdf reader. I installed it on an old computer and it works just great.
So which is better? Sumatra, PDF Complete, or anything else?
And do others agree that there are issues with the Foxit reader? Quite a few people seemed to claim that in the other thread (can't remember which one now).
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