How to get information about installed antivirus and firewall?

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I need to find information about what antivirus and firewall was installed in Windows. I found solutions with using WMI classes, but I can’t use that one, both classes are not supported any more in latest versions of Windows. It will be better to get this information from register. I try to find some ways to do it, but I have no success. Or if you know how to get this information using API functions, please, write any examples on C#.

Posted 15-Mar-10 17:50pm

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Joshua Tully · Answer 1 · 2010-03-15T19:40:00

For the windows built-in firewall: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364726%28VS.85%29.aspx[^]

For everything else I would suggest using the code found here http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/programming/get-a-list-of-running-processes-in-c/[^] to obtain a list of active process and then using a List of known process that belong to certain AV/FW vendors to determine what is running. I would also suggest you look for active services also.

ChintanHiremath · Answer 2 · 2012-01-06T01:22:00

'This is writtne using VB Script

VB

strComputer = "." 'Can set to remote machine.

dim colItems, objItem

On Error Resume Next
Set oWMI = GetObject _
      ("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer _
     & "\root\SecurityCenter")

strText=strText & vbCrLF & vbCrLf & "Antivirus Information" & vbCrLf
Set colItems = oWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from AntiVirusProduct")
for each objItem in colItems
    strText=strText & "------------------------------------------------------" & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "companyName: " & objItem.companyName & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "displayName: " & objItem.displayName & vbCrLf
'    strText=strText & "instanceGuid: " & objItem.instanceGuid & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "onAccessScanningEnabled: "
    strText=strText & objItem.onAccessScanningEnabled  & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "productUptoDate: " & objItem.productUptoDate & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "versionNumber: " & objItem.versionNumber & vbCrLf
    strText=strText & "------------------------------------------------------" & vbCrLf
next
WScript.echo strText

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