I’ve looked at many of them, and I installed the half-dozen that looked most promising. There are more than a dozen alternatives to Secunia’s PSI. On that day, PSI will no longer be functioning and should be uninstalled.” SUMo leads the way The program is telling users: “On April 20, 2018, Flexera will be ending support life for PSI. However, the Danish company was taken over by Flexera in 2015, and Flexera has now decided to drop PSI. (Not all Microsoft updates install correctly.) PSI was by far the best of the bunch, partly because it covered a wider range of software, and partly because it also checked major Microsoft software components as well. They scanned the software on your PC, checked it against a database of the latest versions, and either installed the updates or gave you a link to do it manually. Secunia’s Personal Software Inspector (PSI) and similar programs solved that problem. If you used software from 50 different sources, did you really want to run 50 background processes to check for updates? If not, did you want to visit 50 websites to check for new versions? You could keep Windows up to date by installing the security patches that Microsoft released on the second Tuesday of each month, but how could you keep non-Microsoft software up to date? These included Sun’s (now Oracle’s) Java JRE, Macromedia’s (now Adobe’s) Reader and Flash Player, and Apple’s iTunes and QuickTime. It got more than 1m downloads by 2008, so many others benefited, too.Īs Windows became harder to exploit, attackers shifted their attention to weaker programs that were commonly found on Windows PCs.
Microsoft also made “SDL’s tools, processes and guidance available free of charge to any organisation that wanted to adapt it to their own business”. This greatly improved Windows’ security over the next decade. This $500 million project introduced a new Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) that concentrated on things like threat modelling, code reviews and penetration testing.
After that, Bill Gates shut down the whole Windows division to train around 8,500 programmers in what he called, in a once-famous memo, Trustworthy Computing.
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