get antivirus windows commandline

Solution 1:

If you are using an anti-virus package that properly reports into Windows' Security Centre you should be able to get its name via WMI.

This will return a list of all installed AV products from the local machine:

WMIC /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2 Path AntiVirusProduct Get displayName /Format:List

Note: I only tested this on Windows 7, so I'm not sure if it will work on XP as-is (should work on Vista+ though).