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Author Topic: Belarc Advisor .  (Read 4181 times)

jeffbb

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Belarc Advisor .
« on: February 15, 2009, 07:01:15 PM »

Hi
Does anyone use this ?.
I have run Belarc Advisor  on my machine (vista) and it reports that I have

1  :   8 Microsoft security updates missing . But  running update in Windows tells me there are No more updates


2:    Virus Protection Unknown  . but  I am using AVAST

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Re: Belarc Advisor .
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 07:59:53 PM »

Belarc is OK, but I prefer either Everest or SIW:

Everest
http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

SIW (System Information for Windows)
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2159777/siw-62
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Re: Belarc Advisor .
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 12:40:38 AM »

I have used Belarc quite often and find it quite useful.
I have only used SIW on about 2 occasions I did find it very good and found that it's reports seem a lot more user friendly.

The missing updates could possibly be updates you have hidden (Do not show again)
Or updates that have not installed properly.
There should be a update number with each of them, so you could try going direct to the MS site and download them again.

I now use Avast on my Vista PC and it'is recognised OK.
I think Maybe that's just one of those things that Belarc doe's not recognise.
« Last Edit: February 18, 2009, 02:25:21 PM by oldfogy »
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Re: Belarc Advisor .
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2009, 12:38:57 PM »

HI

Thanks for the replies . I will check again with windows  security updates . I will also try Everest and SIW to compare
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Re: Belarc Advisor .
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2009, 07:50:02 PM »

Let us know how you get on mate.
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Re: Belarc Advisor .
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2009, 09:35:37 PM »

Hi
Very impressed with
SIW .Lots of info ,more than I can understand ! But some very useful.

Something interesting though . This does not recognise AVAST as an AV ,also it has 2 entries for Zonealarm one as firewall but "not active " the other as an AV "active " need to investigate that .

 
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2159777/siw-62

I havent tried Everest as  there has been no support since 2006 ?

http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

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