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antivirus software detection Chris 03-06-2006
Posted by Chris on March 6, 2006, 4:43 pm
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I am working on a project that provides secure (SSL) access to internal
websites and RSS feeds. I need to ensure that the end users have
antivirus software installed on their machines. I understand that each
antivirus package will install (and probably be detected differently),
but I was hoping to leverage off of something I had once seen in XP but
can no longer find. Some time ago I remember XP notifying me that I
had antivirus software installed and it was up to date. I also
remember updating my av software but not performing the required reboot
(I was busy) and XP popped up a security notification in the system
tray informing me that my av software required a reboot to be
completed.

I thought I would be able to see the little blurb about AV software
being installed and up to date on the Security Center but it's not
there. Was I dreaming this, or does this/ did this exist somewhere on
XP?

By the way, I am running XP SP2 and all end users will be running XP.


Posted by Chris on March 6, 2006, 4:53 pm
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Nevermind. I couldn't find it here at work because it's been disabled.
I was expecting to see three lights...green, yellow, or red for av,
firewall, and automatic updates. I bet that's how it'll look on my
home computer.

"You can manage Windows Security Center by using Active Directory Group
Policy settings. By default, Windows Security Center is turned off in
domain environments."


Posted by Scherbina Vladimir on March 8, 2006, 3:08 pm
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Then most likely you need to contact MS support to figure out what's wrong.
Or use GetExtendedTcpTable dynamically - LoadLibrary for "Iphlpapi.dll" and
then GetProcAddress for "GetExtendedTcpTable".

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> Nevermind. I couldn't find it here at work because it's been disabled.
> I was expecting to see three lights...green, yellow, or red for av,
> firewall, and automatic updates. I bet that's how it'll look on my
> home computer.
>
> "You can manage Windows Security Center by using Active Directory Group
> Policy settings. By default, Windows Security Center is turned off in
> domain environments."
>



Posted by Scherbina Vladimir on March 8, 2006, 3:32 pm
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Ooops, sorry ! I answered on another post on another NG!

If you're going to detect what AV is installed then you need to form a list
of well-known AV's, and use Win32_InstalledSoftwareElement wmi class to get
the list of all installed programs. Then simply compare those two lists.

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> Then most likely you need to contact MS support to figure out what's
> wrong. Or use GetExtendedTcpTable dynamically - LoadLibrary for
> "Iphlpapi.dll" and then GetProcAddress for "GetExtendedTcpTable".
>
> --
> Vladimir
> http://spaces.msn.com/vladimir-scherbina/
>
>> Nevermind. I couldn't find it here at work because it's been disabled.
>> I was expecting to see three lights...green, yellow, or red for av,
>> firewall, and automatic updates. I bet that's how it'll look on my
>> home computer.
>>
>> "You can manage Windows Security Center by using Active Directory Group
>> Policy settings. By default, Windows Security Center is turned off in
>> domain environments."
>>
>
>



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