Re: SORTED

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Is it possible that this is in the "Security Center" API?

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Jim Vierra

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> John Bryan
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> "John ALT2" wrote:
>
>> All modern Anti-Virus software is integrated into Windows via an
>> Anti-Virus
>> API (via WMI?). This is demonstarated by the way a MS Windows security
>> warning is genereated if your 3rd party AV software's database is out of
>> date.
>>
>> Anyone got any clues, leads or advice on how to query Windows to find out
>> whether:-
>>
>> 1) There is an installed & active antivirus.
>> 2) Whether it's virus database is up to date.
>>
>> Windows has this information, it is just a case of how to obtain it. The
>> reason is for a security check to ensure that computers are protected
>> before
>> allowing them access to a sensitive system. We don't need to know what AV
>> software they have, just so long as it is there.
>>
>> Microsoft publish details of how to activate the API to initiate scans
>> but
>> not how to read current status etc.
>>
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>> Regards
>>
>>
>> John Bryan
>> ALT2 Limited
>> Application Integration Specialists
>> www.ALT2.co.uk
>> +44 (0)7971 277235


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