1. A method of managing software package updates, comprising: identifying a set of executing processes on a client; associating the set of executing processes with a set of executable files; associating the set of executable files with a set of installed software package updates; determining an update timestamp for each software package update in the set of installed package updates; comparing the update timestamp for each software package update in the set of installed package updates to a start time for each executing process in the set of executing processes; and identifying a set of outdated executable files having a start time before the update timestamp of an associated software package update based on the comparison.