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Because keeping up-to-date
with the latest security patches

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or patches at all,

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for all your different
types of software

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is a huge hassle, we want
to automate it.

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Also if we do automate it, it means
we're not going to forget,

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and it's more likely those
patches are applied,

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and it's more likely that we're going
to be safe from attacks.

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There is one main application that
I recommend for doing this,

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and that is Secunia Personal
Software Inspector or PSI.

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And it's also free.

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It's maintained by this company
and they are a security company

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and therefore it has a strong focus on
updates where security matters most.

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The update data has to be updated
to be useful and

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it's maintained by Secunia.

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And they do quite a good
job of doing that

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but they don't cover
all software,

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but they do cover all
of the software

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that is important for security.

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If you just simply go to the website,
you're going to

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have to fill in your
details here,

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download, you’ll get
the executable.

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If you run this,

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select your language, Next,
accept the license.

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Now you have the choice of how
you want this to be set.

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You can set it to “Update
programs automatically”,

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which I recommend for you
when it's all set up,

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definitely set it to that.

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But for when you
first install it,

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I recommend that you set it to
“Download updates automatically”,

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and then “Let me choose
whether to update”.

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This way you can choose

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which software you may not want
to have updated,

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because it could be that
you have some software

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that you don't want to update it
for different reasons.

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You don't want it to start
automatically

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updating those applications because
that's exactly what it’ll do

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if you set this.

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You may even not want it to download
anything at all

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but just check to see whether or not
your software is up-to-date,

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just for the install.

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In fact, I'll check it to this
just for the install.

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And then do you want
to launch it? Yes we do.

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When you first start the program,
it scans for software

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looking for what is installed.

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This can take some time,

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especially if you've got a lot of
applications, you've got a large hard drive.

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You’ll also need a internet
connection,

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and it needs to get the latest updates
with that internet connection.

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If you don't have a connection,
it may start to grumble,

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and if it seems to have hung,
just leave it,

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it's probably just scanning to see
what software you've got.

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And you’ll find that
this application

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can become unresponsive
from time to time,

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but if you leave it,
it's usually just

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trying to do something
in the background,

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scanning your files, etc.

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If you look here
we have Settings.

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If Detailed view isn't selected,

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just check that check box and that
will give you a better view

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of what apps need to be updated.

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This is the options we had
while we did the install.

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Here you can change it
back to Update

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automatically, which is recommended.

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What you can do, so what
I've done here is,

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I've deliberately made
sure that there is

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some software that is

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out of date.

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If I click on here,

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right click I can decide

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perhaps I want to ignore
updates for this program.

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Maybe it’s some software
that if I update it,

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I have to

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change some code
that I’ve developed.

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So you can actually
ignore it and then

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choose all the ones that you
actually want to ignore,

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and then change it to
Update automatically.

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You can show the details,

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which doesn't really show
you much more

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than what you get from
the detailed view,

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which is the installed version.

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Plus you get the location
of where the file is.

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Very useful, if you go on
More information

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it's going to launch
your browser

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and it's going to give
you information

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about the patch
and the vulnerability.

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And you can see here,
highly critical.

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So that would be one that you
would probably want to install

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because again iTunes is a

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application that directly interfaces
with the internet so

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it's particularly sensitive
to needing to be updated.

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You can look at History
and see what has been

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already installed or updated.

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If you have a program that you want
to be monitored but it isn't here,

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then you can request
from Secunia to

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add that, and if you're lucky
they may indeed add it.

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You can scan again.

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You'll see it'll start to download
the latest definitions

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and it will scan your
system again.

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And like I said, this can
take a little bit of time

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if you've got a large system.

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You can see here it gives
you a rating of –

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here is 97% for

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how up-to-date it believes
my system to be.

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And this says “Currently updating”,

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so

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let's change these settings
to Download.

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And you can see here, this is doing
exactly what I mentioned,

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in that it starts to pause

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and you're not quite sure
what it's doing here,

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it's got a little timer, but

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what it's doing is it's updating
in the background

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and you’ll get
this little timer.

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The best thing is just
to leave it,

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let it get on with
what it's doing

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and then eventually
it will come back

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and you'll be able to use
the interface again.

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Now, there are alternative
tools and to this one,

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to automate patching.

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There is something called
Appupdater,

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there is FileHippo App Manager,

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there's Ninite,

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there’s Software Informer Client,

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there's Software Update
Monitor or SUMo,

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but make sure you get the lite version
of that because the non-lite version

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comes with all the adware
and bloatware.

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There is Heimdal Free.

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Not sure if I'm saying
that correctly.

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That comes from a security company,
so that has a security focus

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so that's worth a look.

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You can also do automated
driver updates

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and there's a few pieces
of software that do that.

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Dumo is one example.

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If you have your machine switched
off any length of time,

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or you're disconnected from the internet
for any length of time,

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before you start using your browser,
or going on to the internet,

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you need to check to see
if you're up to date

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with your patches first.

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Get your system up to date first,

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then use your browser,

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then use your internet.

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And if we look here,

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it's actually conveniently

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auto updated it for us

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and we're on the latest
version here.

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On History,

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we can see the update’s
been made,

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which is brilliant.

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Now we're at 100%.