Secunia, a danish security vendor, has released a software called Personal Software Inspector. It was designed to check whether the programs in a user’s PC needs to have an update. It’s currently in a beta stage and it has ability to check approximately 4,200 programs.

One of the goals of this software is let users apply patches to their programs to prevent getting hacked in the future.

“I’ll argue we are more reliable than other update mechanisms,” said Thomas Kristensen who is Secunia’s chief technology officer.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD