Avira Software Updater

To keep your computer safe from the newest malware threats, it's essential to keep your antimalware software solutions up to date. Unless you want to monitor each installed program yourself, you can turn to Avira Software Updater.

This is a simple and straightforward tool capable of scanning your hard disk for all installed programs, finding the latest official releases online, and downloading the newest versions without bothering you.

Before setting up this tool, make sure you have .NET Framework installed since it cannot run without this software framework. Avira Software Updater comes bundled in a clean and elegant interface, where you can access the overview, installed software and events from different areas.

After running a scan on the full hard disk, the utility detects installed applications and lists them in the main window, along with the producer. If you have purchased the full version of Avira Software Updater, then it can download and install the newest versions without your intervention.

Otherwise, it shows a button with a direct link to the publisher's website, where you can download and install the program yourself. Although Avira Software Updater focuses on security software, it can actually identify any type of programs. All of them, including the up-to-date ones, can be viewed in the "My Software" section.

Lastly, you can review events with monitored software (name, installed version), number of updates until the current time, together with the number of days since Avira was installed.

Multiple languages are available for the interface. The application worked smoothly on Windows 10 in our tests, detected programs quickly, and remained light on system resources usage.

All aspects considered, Avira Software Updater offers a simple and straightforward solution for keeping software applications up to date, putting emphasis on security tools. It's wrapped in an intuitive interface that makes it ideal for casual users.