Recently Acrobat and Quicktime both had some major security flaws, that could be alleviated with product upgrades/patches. The problem is, more often than not people simply don’t know they’re running a vulnerable version of a product. Either the software informs them, depending on settings, or they never upgrade and end up with a trojan, virus, root kit, spyware, you name it… on their machine.

F-Secure is attempting to make life a little easier for those people who don’t want to install any software to monitor these outdated programs, or just want to quickly check if they are running fully patched versions of the latest software. Note that this service requires Internet Explorer.

From the F-Secure website:

F-Secure Health Check is an online service which

• checks whether you have an Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware software installed on your computer
• checks whether you have known vulnerabilities in your applications
• checks whether you have applications that are no longer supported by the vendor
• helps you fix the vulnerabilities found.