We all know that’s really difficult to stay upto date with your applications and to be honest if the application doesn’t check for new updates itself and notice you about newer versions not many people take the time to check their applications if they’re up to date.
And for sure it’s no easy job to take care of all applications you’re using, the more popular ones and more often used ones are checked from time to time, or when some error occur. But what about some not so often used apps you catched ages ago and you can’t remember where you got them from? For each app you have to search and see if there’s a newer version, and if so you have to update it to the latest version…that’s no pleasure.

But there’s now a light on the end of the tunnel:Personal Software Inspector(PSI) by Secunia(Secunia is the leading Security firm currently) will cover this gap. It’s aim is to provide you with all informations needed to check your applications if they’re up to date and if needed to update them fast and easily.

How it works

After you installed the application, it does a system scan to find all known applications(currently it detects 4,2k different apps, more to come). After the Scan is done you see a list with all out of date applications which where detected, as well as all applications which are no longer supported. You can also view all secure applications, if you like to.
For all out of date apps you get a direct link to an update package, for some you get as well a Secunia Advisory-page link, where you can read something about the vulnerability which is closed in the never version.
All you need to do is to click the link next to your outdated software and an update will be installed, and whoosh you run the latest version, without many work of yours! Isn’t that great?

The Software shows you as well a System Score, this score is calculated by adding the numbers of outdated/end-of-life apps against the total amount of detected applications, so the higher your score the better for your system and your security.
In order to run the Software you need a registration for PSI, this is done automatically. You can cancel as well the registration and all your data will be dropped( you need to deinstall the application as well if not you will be registered again). All communication with the secunia server is done through a SSL connection to grant security. The submitted data is only some generic string information about the software you have installed, so the server is able to detect what apps and version you’re running. As Secunia is well established, you can trust them for sure from my point of view.

Conclusion

That kind of app is overdue, now you can check applications all at once if they’re with the latest version. And if not you can easily update them. You can update a bunch of apps in no time, that’s awesome. As told before it can detect currently 4,2 thousand different apps, mostly much popular ones but as well many not so wide spread applications will follow, as you can submit them to secunia as well, to be added.
Already over 30 thousand people used that app and sent over 2,4 million application signatures to secunia⁽¹⁾.
Don’t miss that app and grap your copy today to check how secure your system is!

Never miss a new update again!

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