[HELP]: Detect if Virus Protection Installed

[IcemanND]

I looking for a way via vbscript, wmi calls, api calls, somehow using M$ own security center, to detect if virus scan software of some kind is already installed on the machine. This is so that if a user runs one of our system security script that installs virusscan it either removes another version or verifies that the user knows what they have and that they keep it updated.

Problem is that the virusscan manufacturers constantly change where they install to making it difficult to check for every possible version out there. The M$ Security Center seems to do a good job of this, but I have not been able to find a way to call it myself and get a result that would indicated that one is installed or not and is up to date or not. You can look for the NOTIFY.EXE which is launch if there is something wrong but it could be that the firewall is off, virusscan is missing, virusscan is out of dateor updates are turned off. Only slightly helpfull.

Anyone have any great ideas. I've run out of search terms for google that might find me what I'm after, so I thought I would pick the collective brains here.

Thanks in advance.

[RogueSpear]

Interestingly, there is a WMI namespace root\SecurityCenter, but my computer is showing no dynamic classes under it. So I really don't know how to use it or if it have a use yet.

[IcemanND]

And I have yet to find any documentation on M$ site about it.