PowerShell Script : Find the name of Installed Antivirus on local or remote laptop.

 

Do you ever want to know what antivirus installed on remote laptop, or does remote system has a antivirus or not, knowing this is  always a pain, normally you have to call user and ask them,.

Today i have found a cool namespace named “"root\SecurityCenter2" ”  and this name space has a class “AntiVirusProduct ”, you just need to query that class and it will show you the name { and few more info}  of the antivirus installed.

Download Link : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-The-Name-of-Installed-b10fd073 

You can download a little script { if you like } from the above link and when i run it, you can see that it is showing me the name of antivirus installed on my laptop.

You can run the above script on remote laptop too.

function Get-AntivirusName {   [cmdletBinding()]    param ( [string]$ComputerName = "$env:computername" , $Credential )            BEGIN               {                      # Setting WMI query in a variable               $wmiQuery = "SELECT * FROM AntiVirusProduct"                 }            PROCESS               {                      # doing getting wmi                                      $AntivirusProduct = Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\SecurityCenter2" -Query $wmiQuery  @psboundparameters # -ErrorVariable myError -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue'                      Write-host $AntivirusProduct.displayName -ForegroundColor Cyan                 }          END {                 } } #end  of the function

Thanks for reading.

Aman Dhally

Tested on : Windows7 [64 bit]