Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Version 1.1 is the second release of MBSA and includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for common system misconfigurations in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and 2002. MBSA will also scan for missing security updates for the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, IIS 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, IE 5.01 and later, Exchange 5.5 and 2000, and Windows Media Player 6.4 and later.
More info:
hxxp://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/tools/Tools/MBSAhome.asp

[analog chainsaw]

the first version of this program was buggy as hell. patches that you had already installed were sometimes not detected or patches you needed weren't listed. totally destroyed the whole purpose of why this thing was developed.
hopefully they cleared up these bugs in this version.

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Thanks Fisher,

I'l take a chance for this new version