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How Safe is Your Computer?
Security Facts about an average computer user
- 70% users Install a lot of softwares or games which he finds interesting.
- 80%of the user are not ready to update their system with latest patches.
- 60% of the user don’t know if there system is secure.
- 70% user don’t know how to find if the system is really secure
So how do you find if your system is secure and patched with latest patches and updates. Security System Analyzer (SSA) is a tool designed to check your system for the latest security updates. This tool can scan your system and find out the vulnerabilities about the missing patches and updates and provide you a link from where to get.
Features of SSA
- Finds security vulnerabilities and the missing patches for windows.
- Gives a direct link to possible patches to be used to remove the security hole.
- Supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista.
- One click to get the information about latest security vulnerabilities and others.
- Generates HTML reports which makes view easy and can be exported.
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout the community.
How SSA works?
This software completes the whole process in 3 steps:
- Representing configuration information of systems for testing;
- Analyzing the system for the presence of the specified machine state (vulnerability, configuration, patch state, etc.)
- Reporting the results of this assessment
Resources
- Download: ssa-setup.exe (9.9 MB)
- Documentation: ssa-manual.pdf
This tool has an excellent feedback and does not require any user to be geeky. You just need to run the tool and find out whats not secured.
So how you keep track of your PC security? Do share with us in comments and we can discuss.
Great post, never tried this SSA, may be I should try this as my computer was attacked by virus and malwares many times.
I haven’t had virus attacks for a long time now and I also keep my comp. updated all the time. But I guess there would be no harm in trying this out.. Thanks for the info.!
This is indeed a very neat and informative article about computer security.
Thumbs up Ashish
I think its time to step aside from the conventional use of anti virus softwares and try some security softwares for your computer.
Interesting tool indeed. Think I’ll have to use it.
I think i will give it a try as well .