Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) 1.0

[Pat Willener]

Checks installed software for vulnerabilities and available software
updates.

Release version:
1.0.0.1 (Final)

Last release:
25th Nov. 2008

File size:
532,688 bytes

Languages available:
English, Danish, and German

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks!

I recommend this app--it is quite useful, for both novice and expert alike.

 

[gene]

Thanks!

I recommend this app--it is quite useful, for both novice and expert alike.
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I like it too, but its false insecures can be annoying. For example,
immediately before going from PSI(RC4) to PSI 1.0 earlier this week
there were no insecures, afterward there were two (Acrobat.exe and VLC
Player). These are the same two I had to reinstall last weekend to make
PSI happy. Now again, PSI is not recognizing the current versions.
Sometimes the problem can be with the target app's programmers not
denoting the version correctly, but PSI seems a bit fickle. OTOH,
running the online scan (OSI) doesn't mark them, but I'm not sure if
it's as thorough.

Gene

 

[robinb]

me too
robin

Thanks!

I recommend this app--it is quite useful, for both novice and expert
alike.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Interesting--I haven't seen this. when I have seen detections that I don't
understand, I've looked at the details, particularly the paths to the
executables. Usually I've discovered, for example, an ancient version of
Adobe Reader installed by some application to be sure the user can read the
documentation for the app.

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[Anonymous Bob]

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

It doesn't run here on W2K, but thanks.

 

[Pat Willener]

It doesn't run here on W2K, but thanks.

On Windows 2000 you can use the online scanner to detect vulnerable and
outdated software: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/

 

[gene]

Interesting--I haven't seen this. when I have seen detections that I don't
understand, I've looked at the details, particularly the paths to the
executables. Usually I've discovered, for example, an ancient version of
Adobe Reader installed by some application to be sure the user can read the
documentation for the app.

Me too, but when I posted this on the new Secunia forums, it turned out
some others were seeing the same apparently false insecures with Adobe
and VLC.

Gene