So part of my work has me regularly visiting various security websites and reading whitepapers and whatnot about the latest exploits.

9 times out of 10 the reason I can gain access to a system is due to out of date patching of 3rd party software. They'll remember to update windows, but they'll be running an ancient version of apache or something.

Interestingly Secunia (one of the companies I regularly read the white papers of) appears to have released a bit of software that will check a bunch of 3rd party software for you and auto-update it.

Going to get it on my parents PC pronto, just running it on mine at the moment and as i'm religious with updates, i'm in the green but figured its finally a piece of software that does the "update checks" that you see online all the time that I'd actually trust to not just be spyware.

Heres a link: http://secunia.com/psi_30_beta_launch/

heh impressive... it even updates things like ccleaner, vlc, codecs and other goodies. I'm liking it

Most decent software auto-updates itself these days I find, but I can see how that would be useful to install for the lesser literate of computing

I actually spend a lot more time use alpha/beta software now than I used to, I think software releases have changed considerably and there is more pressure to have a version out and available even if it's not quite right and develop on the fly.

Yup I agree, I think the biggest benefit is for that one stop shop for updates.

Most auto updates either require you to tick a box and have a daemon running all the time, or only update when you run the software.

This thing hoovers your drive, versions everything and then goes and looks for updates, even if their manual ones.

It's perfect for making sure my parents pc is always up to date though.

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