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Like anyone, I get tired of turning on the evening news and always hearing about this or that horror, and in terms of blogging about security, quite frankly I am tired of all the stories about how hackers have made mincemeat of our defenses (let’s face it, we work hard and pay good money to keep our computers secure).

So I am happy to report about this most excellent and totally free tool from Secunia, the Secunia Software Inspector, which, when downloaded, will scan your machine to tell you exactly what patches you are missing. And get this, this program not only tells you how you stand with Microsoft Window’s updates, but will also give you the heads up on Skype, instant-message applications, Web browsers Firefox and Opera, as well as multimedia applications such as Adobe Reader, QuickTime, iTunes, Macromedia Flash Player, Sun's Java JRE, and Winamp.

I uncovered this information on Brian Kreb’s Security Fix, and what is great about this handy tool is there is no need to download any software, you can simply run the scanner straight from the site (but you will need to temporarily enable Javascript if you have it disabled). So check out your patches pronto and let's at least make hackers have to work for it.

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