That's because, according to Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy at Adobe, Brad Arkin, they do not want a patch that causes the computer users do not spread function / crash.
"It would be a very bad thing. It's something that we did not want to happen," he said as quoted from TheRegister, Monday (10/03/2011).
According to Arkin, Adobe developers take the fastest 20 minutes to make a patch after knowing the code making up the software so their weakness. The longest, he said, it takes eight hours.
However, it took a lot longer to make sure the patch will run smoothly on all operating system users.
In early 2009, Adobe takes 10 weeks from the time the discovery of a weakness to spread the patch. In the latest case in 2011, when the total reaches only 72 hours.
No wonder if Adobe tried hard to shorten the update time at flaws in Flash and Reader. Both applications were expected to be used by the 100-million computers in the world, with operating systems ranging from Windows, OS X, Linux to Solaris.
In March 2011, Adobe Flash to be weakness in the 'entrance' attacks to security vendor RSA Security. The attack, which erode the effectiveness of security SecurID, which is used approximately 40 million employees in the corporate sector and government.
Arkin also promised there will be improvements on how to install security patches on their software. "The more users who do an update with ease, criminals will increasingly do not like it," he said in the Qualys Security Conference in San Francisco, USA.
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