The good folks over at Secunia have a nice, free, web-based tool to scan your computer for certain common vulnerabilities. I’m surprised I didn’t pick up on this before, as I get the Secunia alert newsletter.

Secunia Software Inspector
6 December, 2006 – Secunia is proud to announce the availability of the Secunia Software Inspector. Detect and update insecure software.

They’ve also released a Beta version of Secunia Personal Software Inspector, also free, that you can install on your PC, as well as a paid version for corporate networks, Secunia Network Software Inspector.

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Cheers!
The Geek

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