Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) 1.0

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Thanks!

I recommend this app--it is quite useful, for both novice and expert alike.
 
Bill Sanderson said:
Thanks!

I recommend this app--it is quite useful, for both novice and expert alike.
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I like it too, but its false insecures can be annoying. For example,
immediately before going from PSI(RC4) to PSI 1.0 earlier this week
there were no insecures, afterward there were two (Acrobat.exe and VLC
Player). These are the same two I had to reinstall last weekend to make
PSI happy. Now again, PSI is not recognizing the current versions.
Sometimes the problem can be with the target app's programmers not
denoting the version correctly, but PSI seems a bit fickle. OTOH,
running the online scan (OSI) doesn't mark them, but I'm not sure if
it's as thorough.

Gene
 
Interesting--I haven't seen this. when I have seen detections that I don't
understand, I've looked at the details, particularly the paths to the
executables. Usually I've discovered, for example, an ancient version of
Adobe Reader installed by some application to be sure the user can read the
documentation for the app.

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Bill Sanderson said:
Interesting--I haven't seen this. when I have seen detections that I don't
understand, I've looked at the details, particularly the paths to the
executables. Usually I've discovered, for example, an ancient version of
Adobe Reader installed by some application to be sure the user can read the
documentation for the app.
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Me too, but when I posted this on the new Secunia forums, it turned out
some others were seeing the same apparently false insecures with Adobe
and VLC.

Gene
 
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