Freeware, Open source and Commercial Patch and software Auditors download

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer – MBSA is a free security scanner for Microsoft products which analyzes a computer or a group of computers for missing patches/updates and common security mis-configurations.

Secunia Software Inspector – The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted "Secunia File Signatures" to recognise applications on your system. The detected applications are then matched against our "Secunia Advisory Intelligence" to determine whether an application is up-to-date or not. The results are then used to advise you on how to update to more secure releases of the insecure applications. Microsoft Windows Update is used to determine if your system is missing security updates from Microsoft.

Secunia Personal Software Inspector – The Secunia PSI detects installed software and categorises your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.

filehippo.com Update Checker – The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download. The client is FREE, only 100kb to download and only takes seconds to run!

UpdateStar – is the program that lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software. Whether it be Freeware, Shareware and commercial software products, UpdateStar covers all of your software. UpdateStar knows more than 80.000 software products and lets you know once an update is available for you. No more wasted time reading hundreds of newsletters or searching websites for newly available updates. You want to stay up-to-date with your software? Use UpdateStar.

Belarc Advisor – Free Personal PC Audit – The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

SUMo – SUMo, which stands for Software Update Monitor. Thanks to SUMo you'll be able to keep your PC up-to-date by using the most recent version of your favorite software ! Unlike build-in auto update features, SUMo tells you if updates are available before you need to use your software.

RadarSync – Is your PC acting sluggish? Is your system causing errors or putting you at risk for a security breach? The problem may be an out-of-date driver or software program. RadarSync is a FREE online scanning tool that checks your PC against 90,000 updates.

F-Secure Health Check – will tell you if your computer is protected. It checks that you have up to date security applications and finds vulnerabilities in your installed software. It then guides you to a solution when issues are discovered.

CNET TechTracker – The TechTracker app shows you the software that is out of date and provides you with the information to decide which updates you need. You’ll find product details as well as editor and user ratings, all in one place.

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