proactive security - software inspector tool
Recently I found a really nice software inspector published by the respected Secunia free for personal use.
The software inspector is a tool that lists all your installed programs and extracts version numbers for each one. After that it verifies the list against secunia's database of vulnerabilities.
A score is then calculated to indicate the up-to-date percentage of your system, along with a summary of all the programs that should be updated due to expected security flaws. For many programs, PSI will produce a direct link to download the related update file. A low percentage means a high security risk because software versions are old and known to have vulnerabilities or other security issues. On the other hand, a high percentage means that the system's software in general is up to date making the host less prone to be successfully attacked.
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Additionally, an agent remains running in the background maintaining the software list updated and reacting when you install, upgrade or downgrade programs, informing or advising accordingly.
I would seriously recommend this inspector for every windows workstation connected to the internet.
Cheers, PJ.
- I am in no way associated with secunia nor I benefit in any way from advertising their product.
- Updated in 2007-09-20 to put a differente screenshot. this does not show a 100% score and suggests an update to a program.
2 comments:
I tried it and it seems nice. It requires a few tweaks in my opinion. It's still beta so...
It's an approximation to "apt-get update" or "emerge -up world" on Windows when used to have your apps up to date. but still very far. :)
Yes, it looks like an early beta. It has been running ok on my (work) system, though!
Some day we'll be able to say: "Please update all my system, thanks. Let me know when you've finished"... just like Linux :)
Cheers!
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