full-disclosure - Antivirus listing

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Message-ID: <5E1DF6530E09DA3BFA68106C@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Antivirus listing

--On Friday, February 11, 2005 01:43:36 PM +0100 "\"weninson r?go\"" 
<watchachi@....de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    Anyone know if there is an API to list the antivirus that are installed
> in a windows machine and retrieve if the antivirus is up to date? Or any
> way to retrieve these informations, i need to do a program to acomplish
> these
> tasks.
>    I've searched all sites but got none yet. Only OPSWAT SDK but it is
> a payd SDK.
>
Microsoft now has a VAPI, but I don't know that all the vendors are using 
it yet.

If you have registry access, you can simply search for the appropriate 
keys.  That's how I do it - using KiXtart I can determine major and minor 
revs as well as dat versions by reading the registry keys.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu