Sandboxing the Adobe Reader

Will this change really make Adobe Reader more reliable ?

In order to be more reliable, they have to make everything more reliable.

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And Adobe doesn’t know how to do this.

Here is the saga:

Introduction:

http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/07/introducing-adobe-reader-protected-mode.html

Part 1:
http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-protected-mode-part-1-design.html

Part 2:
http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-protected-mode-%e2%80%93-part-2-%e2%80%93-the-sandbox-process.html

Update:

We published an article in the Techblog about this : http://techblog.avira.com/2010/11/05/the-adobe-reader-sandbox/en/


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