Free security scanner software for windows

GFI LANguard Security Scanner 9 is a very powerful yet toltally free vulnerability management solution used by over 20,000 customers. GFI LANguard scans your network and ports to detect, assess and rectify security vulnerabilities on your network, with minimal administrative effort. It also provides the tools to remediate vulnerabilities and install missing patches on your network. This solution gives you a complete picture of your network set-up and helps you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.

Freeware version is available, for up to 5 IP addresses. GFI LANguard performs network scans using vulnerability check databases based on OVAL and SANS Top 20, providing over 15,000 vulnerability assessments when your network, including any virtual environment, is scanned.

GFI LANguard gives you the capability to perform multi-platform scans (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) across all environments and analyze your networks security health. You have all the functionality and tools needed to effectively install and manage patches on all machines across different Microsoft operating systems and products in 38 languages. Apart from automatically downloading missing Microsoft security updates, you can also deploy missing Microsoft patches or service-packs.

GFI LANguards auditing function retrieves hardware information on memory, processors, display adapters, storage devices, motherboard details, printers, etc. Using baseline comparisons you can check whether any hardware was added or removed since the last scan, as well as get reports on unauthorized software installations. GFI LANguard can provide alerts or automatically uninstall these unauthorized applications.

Requirements: At least 32 MB of RAM

Retina Network Security Scanner - Conficker Worm 1.0.0.6 uses a variety of attack vectors to transmit and receive payloads, including: software vulnerabilities (e.g. MS08-067), portable media devices (e.g. USB thumb drives and hard drives), as well as leveraging endpoint weaknesses (e.g. weak passwords on network-enabled systems).

The Conficker worm will also spawn remote access backdoors on the system and attempt to download additional malware to further infect the host.

Major Features:

1. Network Security Scanner
   • Retina enables prioritized policy management, patch management, and vulnerability management.
2. Network Vulnerability Assessment
   • Identify network security vulnerabilities, missing application updates, plus zero day threats.
3. Network Discovery and Policy Assessment
   • Retina discovers all devices, operating systems, applications, patch levels, plus policy configurations.
4. Vulnerability Management
   • Enables prioritized policy management, patch management, and vulnerability assessment.
5. Fast and Accurate Scans
   • Accurately scan a Class C network of devices, operating systems and applications in ~15 minutes.
6. Policy Compliance
   • Identify and simplify your corporate and regulatory requirements (SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI and others).

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