{"id":1076,"date":"2006-12-20T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/12\/20\/secunia-software-inspector\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:51","slug":"secunia-software-inspector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/12\/20\/secunia-software-inspector\/","title":{"rendered":"Secunia Software Inspector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1065\">Secunia<\/a>, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1066\">Secunia Software Inspector<\/a> relies on carefully crafted &#8220;Secunia File Signatures&#8221; to recognise applications on your system. The detected applications are then matched against our &#8220;Secunia Advisory Intelligence&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Windows Update is used to determine if your system is missing security updates from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The Secunia Software Inspector covers the most common\/popular end user applications:<br \/>\n* Internet browsers<br \/>\n* Internet browser plugins<br \/>\n* Instant messaging clients<br \/>\n* Email clients<br \/>\n* Media players<br \/>\n* Operating systems<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It uses a Java applet, so it works in Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. I&#8217;m pretty active at keeping my system up-to-date. I just ran it and it took about 3 minutes to do a complete scan. It recognized about a dozen different programs that I had installed, and told me that QuickTime, Flash, and Java all had updates. I installed the updates and then reran the scan, and I&#8217;m all up to date now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? Secunia, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner: The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted &#8220;Secunia File Signatures&#8221; to recognise applications on your system. The detected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-internet-tips","7":"category-recommended-web-sites","8":"category-software-tips","9":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}