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On 17/07/10 23:21, Simon Waters wrote: > > Mark Evans wrote: >> >> There's a rather useful website called filehippo.com which collates >> together a lot of Windows stuff and has an application to check for >> new versions of whatever you have installed. > > That is what the Secunia PSI does that I mentioned. IIRC Secunia PSI points you to the software's website. In some cases you then have to actually find how to actually get the software. > > However it doesn't escape you from the pain of different install > methods, or the security risks of depending on so many servers to > provide updates. Filehippo gives you a set of links to the setup executable, most of which are on the filehippo.com web server. Which is rather easier when you have Windows executables blocked except from whitelisted sites.
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