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Secure from Within. (Home/personal use only) October 18, 2007

I ran across thislittle program the other day. Secunia scanner it appears to be “only” in beta but will continue to be a free tool. It will scan your computer and calculateyour personel Secunia System Score. Just what I need, another number. Any how, this number is based on to the security or lack there of in my PC. It goes in and checks each program that is on your pc that Secunia has a reference for. That is it keeps track of literally thousands of programs and when it finds that program on your computer it it matches the version numbers to check if your version number has any current vulnerabilities. The next step is to give you a link to the upgrade that you need to install.

I have used this type of software before, it was just just a version checker. This is a richer tool that give you a real reason for the updates. It works relatively fast, after a few minutes and it makes it clear what to do next.

The rason for the software is that Secunias’ mission is  to be a world leader in  being a “vulnerability intelligence provider.” The company started in 2002 and currently has 5 million vistor a year, according to the website.

You do need to be administrator privileges this should not be a problem on XP home, as most users are setup as an administrator. You can check this in the control panel under users.  The your OS(windows)must be up to date and you will need to have an internet connection to run the software. They want to raise security awarness, and this is a better way to control the amount of viruses that a computer can get, rahter than waiting to find out that you have a virus and have spread it to your friends and will loose or have lost all of the information on your hard drive.

I use this product and would recommended it to my friends and Family.