I have been using WMI to retrieve the antivirus/antispyware/firewall products registered in the Windows Security Center. Since last month duplicate entries for ESET Internet Security started showing up (since v12.2.29). Somebody else said it also happened with McAfee.
ESET said that since Windows 8, WMI should not be used to check this as there is new API made specifically for this. Apparently this iswhich indeed does not seem to report the duplicates.
But I want to know if WMI can still be used as well, as this is required for pre-Win8 and I have not seen any reports that it shouldn't be used in Win8+ anymore.
To test, use this command line to check the installed antivirus products: WMIC /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2 Path AntiVirusProduct Get /Format:List
And this is what it outputs on my computer:
displayName=Windows Defender instanceGuid={D68DDC3A-831F-4fae-9E44-DA132C1ACF46} pathToSignedProductExe=windowsdefender:// pathToSignedReportingExe=%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MsMpeng.exe productState=393472 timestamp=Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:09:34 GMT displayName=ESET Security instanceGuid={885D845F-AF19-0124-FECE-FFF49D00F440} pathToSignedProductExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ecmds.exe pathToSignedReportingExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ekrn.exe productState=266240 timestamp=Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:20:20 GMT displayName=ESET Security instanceGuid={EC1D6F37-E411-475A-DF50-12FF7FE4AC70} pathToSignedProductExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ecmds.exe pathToSignedReportingExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ekrn.exe productState=266240 timestamp=Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:08:22 GMT
Windows Defender is disabled and as you can see, the second ESET entry has not been touched for over a month now.
Now my questions are:
Any help is much appreciated.
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Hello @Hart29
We kindly request you to contact ESET Support for the query you've raised and they will help you.
Regards,
Madhan M
Hello @Hart29
We kindly request you to contact ESET Support for the query you've raised and they will help you.
Regards,
Madhan M
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