Software Update Monitor (Sumo)

As Internet has become more widespread different security holes of programs and operating systems have risen to a major security threat. Program vulnerabilities are exploited constantly, and often a worm or Trojan horse may use one of these holes to get into system.

Program authors publish quite well updates for found problems nowadays. Unfortunately, all programs are not yet using the automatic update, in which case updating is left to the user's responsibility. Hunting fresh versions is not an easy task, so it's no wonder that system contains quite often outdated programs which may also contain serious security holes.

Software Update Monitor (Sumo) is a wonderful tool to keep track on installed software versions. The program can monitor installed programs and check if any new updates for these programs exists. Sumo can also tell, will the available update fix security holes, and whether updating is important.


List of features in a nutshell (list taken from program homepage):

* Automatic detection of installed software
* Detects required updates / patchs for your software
* Filter / authorize Beta versions (user setting)
* Ignore list : only tracks software YOU want to track
* More compatibility and less false positive than others Update Monitors (according to users feedback ;-)
* Internationalization support.