The Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against threats.
The Secunia PSI, the free security scanning tool for private use, removes the inconvenience from home endpoint security. The Secunia PSI’s unique security scanner automatically scans your PC and alerts you whenever your installed programs and plug-ins require updating. It even patches them for you or, if a patch hasn’t been issued by the vendor, recommends the best course of action.
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting private PCs (endpoints). Their entry points are vulnerabilities (certain code errors or bugs) in popular third party programs, which are exploited and used as a gateway to compromise PCs and access confidential data such as passwords, online profiles, and bank details. Attacks exploiting vulnerable programs and plug-ins are rarely blocked by traditional anti-virus.
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Features:
- Secunia provides basic information about the installed program statuses.
- With a chart to gauge their security over time and a simplified listing of any errors.
- Clicking on an error leads you through the proprietary Easy-to-Patch program update process, which automatically excludes more challenging updates.
- The Advanced layout tab exposes more details and more updates.
- It checks your Microsoft XML, your Adobe Flash player installation, and others programs, looking for mission-critical holes and their respective updates.
- Installed programs get flagged as Patched, End-of-Life, and Insecure, with the most recent reported threat noted with a colored bar and a mouse-over label on the right column.
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