Overview
The Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks. Attacks exploiting vulnerable programs and plug-ins are rarely blocked by traditional anti-virus and are therefore increasingly "popular" among criminals.
The only solution to block these kind of attacks is to apply security updates, commonly referred to as patches. Patches are offered free-of-charge by most software vendors, however, finding all these patches is a tedious and time consuming task. Secunia PSI automates this and alerts you when your programs and plug-ins require updating to stay secure.
Key Features
Here are the key features in Secunia PSI 3.0
- Automatic Updates: Functionality for Auto Updates is now implemented as a core feature in the Secunia PSI.
- New User Interface: A new User Interface has been implemented. The design has been updated to make it simpler and easy to use the Secunia PSI as well as improving the overall look and feel.
- Integration with Secunia CSI: The new Secunia PSI features integration with the commercial Secunia CSI.
- Improved Presentation of Scan Result: The presentation of scan results have been significantly improved, using techniques that have been tested during the Technology Preview. The Scan Results will be grouped according to their installation and patch state, which in turn makes it simpler to identify the programs that actually requires the latest security patches and which are e.g. "simply" left-over files from previous installations.
New in Secunia 3.0
Secunia PSI 3.0 contains a number of new features and improvements:
- Updated user interface: The user interface has been carefully re-designed to serve and be useful to users at all levels.
- Automatic updates: Secunia PSI can automatically update software silently in the background without any interaction from the user, including programs where silent installation parameters are not made available by the vendors. The user can also choose to disable automatic updates to maintain full control over which updates are deployed on the PC.
- Localisation: The application is now available in English, German, French, Spanish and Danish.
- Update history: The "History" (change log) shows which programs have been updated when and whether the update was successfully deployed or not.
- Ignore rules: Right-click a program to ignore updates to this.
- Scan individual drives: Choose which drives to include in the scan.
- In-application help files: Click the "Need Help?" button from anywhere in the Secunia PSI to get instant access to the user guide.
- Various minor fixes and enhancements.
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Secunia PSI 3.0.0.6005 is available for download at following website:
New in Secunia PSI 3.0.0.6005
This build contains following updates:
Proxy:
- PSI 3 says it doesn't support Proxy. Proxies are not supported for standard PSI installations, so the message is correct for the normal use case. Only if PSI is installed with CSI integration does it have limited support for proxies. Error message updated to reflect this.
- Proxy settings. When installing the PSI, and if a previous PSI has been connected with CSI, the user is prompted for proxy settings when installing the new PSI. Fixed.
- During setup, my Proxy host name field defaults to an invalid value. Fixed.
Settings:
- Update handling. During the installation of PSI, the user selects Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and update. Handling should notify the user when updates are available. After installation is finished and the first scan is run, the setting is automatically changed from Notify (not recommended) to Update (recommended). Fixed.
Icon Enhancement:
- Tray icon is red but the UI shows 100% patched programs. In several cases the icon would stay red to indicate that the update agent had not retrieved scan data which could be confusing if the user interface was indicating that the system was up-to-date, since the red icon was also used to indicate that the system was vulnerable. A grey icon is now used to indicate that the update agent has not retrieved data yet. A pop-up message will now indicate if the update agent cannot contact the Secunia servers.
Minor bug fixes:
- In addition to the major changes, a number of minor bug fixes as well as aesthetic and user-experience enhancements have been completed.
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 8
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or later
- Microsoft Windows XP SP3
Note: To install and run the Secunia PSI you require administrative privileges.
Source:
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