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vinoth3556
February 10th, 2006, 07:36 AM
HI All,
How to identify whether Antivirus like Norton, Trend Micro and Mcafee is installed in the system. If so is there any way of detecting its version. And also i want to know whether that particular antivirus is running or not.
Thanks In Advance

Regards

-Vinoth
PeejAvery
February 10th, 2006, 07:42 AM
What scripting language are you trying to write this in? If you are doing this on Windows machines, you could use the registry to find this out.
vinoth3556
February 12th, 2006, 10:53 AM
I want to detect it without using an registry.
PeejAvery
February 12th, 2006, 11:43 AM
As I asked before, what scripting language do you want to write this in?

I want to detect it without using an registry.
Well, then you can't truly detect an antivirus. The registry is what contains the installed applications CLSIDs.

The only other option I can think of is to search files and folders for the antivirus. The problem with this is that it might be installed but not used. It could could be buried deep in some folders so it would take a long time to detect.