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A follow up to my original article here.  I got an email from PSI today saying that they released a new version of their software to fix my problem and low an behold, they did!  Yea to somebody who fixes something for you quickly!

PSI is a bit different than the other two solutions; FileHippo and UpdateStar.  PSI is geared to indicating only those software packages that have security vulnerabilities.  I like to keep everything up to date, but sometimes I wonder if I am just updating to update, or because I need to update.

Unlike FileHippo and UpdateStar, which give me what needs to be updated, PSI gives my system a score based on how many packages need to be updated because of security issues or end-of-life software versions.  For the security vulnerabilities, PSI has links to their site which has the Secunia advisory.

You can also create rules to ignore programs.  For example, I have a security vulnerability in PHP version 5.2.5, but since PHP was installed as part of XAMPP, I am afraid to attempt to update just PHP and not the whole XAMPP package.  So, I could ignore it.

I did also notice an error with PSI.  I had originally installed version 2.x of Filezilla and upgraded it to version 3.x because FileHippo told me I was out of date, but PSI still believed I had 2.x installed, so I had to uninstall Filezilla 2.x and then re-install the 3.x version.

Like FileHippo and UpdateStar, I am going to evaluate this package for a while and see which one works best for me.