Secunia PSI

alerts you to critical security updates

Our Rating: (Excellent)

Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) scans your computer for seriously outdated software products that have been discontinued or require critical security updates from the vendor. The program can recognize almost 30,000 software products and gathers update information from a variety of online sources, a user community and in-house research. Once the scan is completed, Secunia PSI will present you with a list of issues that were detected, along with download links to updated version, additional online information and other details. Advanced users can chose to ignore certain programs or exclude paths from the system scan. Secunia PSI can scan your computer on a daily basis and automatically alert you if new issues are detected.

Freeware