How to tell if Anti Virus is installed.

[Mufasa]

Window's has a way to tell if Anti Virus is installed ( or at least appears
to - when it's not installed - it tells you ).

How can I do the same check? I just want to know if AV is installed.

TIA - J.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

J.

You should be able to query for the WMI provider for the anti-virus
program. You need to connect to the "root\SecurityCenter" root in WMI, and
then query for the AntiVirusProduct class. The following thread shows some
details:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...r"+wmi+provider&rnum=6&hl=en#412c50e71964a16f

Mind you, this will only work for products which provide WMI providers
for their product. Windows also will look for certain registry settings,
but I don't think that is published.

Also, there are issues involving Symantic products as well.