Detect installed antivirus

Question

Possible duplicates:
Antivirus detection in Windows using C #
How to determine if virusscanner and / or firewall is installed? (And a few other security related issues.)

Is there any way to detect av currently installed without searching for known processes?

Answer 1

Yes there is. You can use WMI, I assume that you are asking about Windows to check installed instances of the antivirus program. This is pretty simple with C #, and this link gives a good explanation of how to do this. It is also possible to access WMI from C ++, and this is explained here . Also, for any WMI related issues, I highly recommend WMI Studio .

Answer 2

It depends on the AV software and OS, but it looks like you can use WMI. Here is an example using a WMI script - using WMI from C ++, I don't know, sorry.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2008/05/12/how-to-get-antivirus-information-with-wmi-vbscript.aspx