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Project 1-3: Inspection for Insecure Versions of Applications Using Secunia Software Inspector

For this practical, I would be using Secunia Software Inspector to check for applications that are not patched. Nowadays, unpatched applications softwares programs are increasingly becoming targets of attackers.

First, I go to http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online.
This websites runs a scan of your computer for any unpatch applications. It will alert you of the programs that your computer have which are not patched and will give you links of which for you to download patches to the applications.


This picture above shows that it has applications that are unpatched and it also provides the link for the user to go to download it.



However, for this picture, all of its applications have been patched.

Overall, I think that the software inspector is an excellent tool. It is useful for people that are not so up-to-date with application patches and for applications that the user does not use often.