Virus Scanner
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/XP] ------------------------------------------- My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored in the shell of the OS somewhere like the registry any ideas????
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/XP] ------------------------------------------- My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored in the shell of the OS somewhere like the registry any ideas????
Why not look at the running processes? You should be able to get the names of the different processes that run for each program if you spend some time on google. SO then you could have your app scan them and see what the user has loaded up, and advantage over this to is that you know that it's running and not just installed.
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Why not look at the running processes? You should be able to get the names of the different processes that run for each program if you spend some time on google. SO then you could have your app scan them and see what the user has loaded up, and advantage over this to is that you know that it's running and not just installed.
what u r asking me is to keep a list of the proces names that will needed for differnt AV packages the problem with this is that I dont know what package the end user will be using for all i know he maybe using mcAffee or TrendMicro or some other obscure industrial AV solution so i guess maintaining a list of the different processes is out of question ===========================================//== I found out that in Nortons case the "Smart Scan" option has a list of filetype extensions in them so as the NAV agent is started at startup itself when the OS opens any file the AV agent immdeiately scans files if its extension is in the Smart Scan list so that leasd to a conclusion that its not the Office application that calls the AV to start a scan but the AV itself that does this prior to opening the doc ===========================================//== in which case there may not be any generic way to know which is the current AV package installed??? ===========================================//==
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what u r asking me is to keep a list of the proces names that will needed for differnt AV packages the problem with this is that I dont know what package the end user will be using for all i know he maybe using mcAffee or TrendMicro or some other obscure industrial AV solution so i guess maintaining a list of the different processes is out of question ===========================================//== I found out that in Nortons case the "Smart Scan" option has a list of filetype extensions in them so as the NAV agent is started at startup itself when the OS opens any file the AV agent immdeiately scans files if its extension is in the Smart Scan list so that leasd to a conclusion that its not the Office application that calls the AV to start a scan but the AV itself that does this prior to opening the doc ===========================================//== in which case there may not be any generic way to know which is the current AV package installed??? ===========================================//==
Maybe I'm confused, But your trying to see what the users AV package is correct? So how would keeping a list not be able to tell you? For instance lets say mcfescn.exe is the process that is Mcafee AV, so if you scan the running processes and you see that mcfescn.exe is in memory you know that the person is using Mcafee as their AV program. I do agree that using a list is going to be useless if they are using an obsure package but other then asking them I don't see a way to do it..