Proactive Security Auditor FE (Freeware Edition) is a free, small, fast and easy to use program to assist system administrators and ordinary users to keep their computers secure by identifying what security updates are installed on local and remote machines, and allowing to download and install missing patches from Microsoft web site.
The features and advantages of Proactive Security Auditor FE are:
- Very small and extremely fast
- Intuitive user interface
- Agentless - no software to install on client machines
- Credentials management
- Does not use MSXML and MDAC - no additional software/libraries needed
- Scanning remote machines selected by NetBios names or IPs
- Compare scans made at different times - see what patches have been added and removed
- Browse Microsoft security bulletins (all or by product)
- Filter patches by status (installed/missing/note)
- Filter patches by severity (critical/important/moderate/low)
- Generate HTML reports
- View modes - by computer or by date
- Deploying patches on local and remote machines
