any way to detect the Antivirus installed on a windows server

Asked Jun 27 '13 at 20:59

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I want to find what antivirus in installed on the server.

There are four approaches that I have come across till now.

There is WMI. But the root/securityCenter and root/securityCenter2 namespaces are not available on the server editions of windows. Detect Antivirus on Windows using C#
Perform a dictionary search after getting the list of the currently installed softwares as it is mentioned here by Leonardo. How to detect antivirus on Windows Server 2008 in C#?
Using the OESIS framework for doing it. The problem with it is that it is licensed. I am looking for an open source framework.
Using the EICAR test file and seeing that the antivirus detects it or not. That would not be a good option for me.

Is there any way I can get the information other than performing a dictionary search.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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asked Jun 27 '13 at 20:59

bazzinga

Why are you wanting to detect AV on a server? – Dai Jun 27 '13 at 21:45
@Dai..because the monitoring by the antivirus has performance issues with my application – bazzinga Jun 27 '13 at 23:16

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