Can anyone explain in english this piece of WMI documentation! WMI securitycenter product state

Question

Hey guys,

I am trying to decipher the productState property in the SecurityCenter.productState WMI namespace.

The product state is for example an int of : 262144 - which you then look at this page of documentation decipher into an actual product state meaning :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb432509(VS.85).aspx

I may have found the wrong piece of documentation but I am trying to decipher a meaning from the product state int - i.e is it up to date - is it running etc etc

But I cannot understand it.

Anyone out their got the understanding!?

Cheers,

Andy

Answer 1

The value 262144 looks like a bit mask. Did you try to check against those values specified in the link? To perform a check you can use the following code:

int value = 262144;
if ( (value & WSC_SECURITY_PROVIDER_FIREWALL) > 0 )
{ 
     //firewall is installed
}
else if ( (value & WSC_SECURITY_PROVIDER_ANTISPYWARE) > 0 )
{
    //antispyware is installed
}

Answer 2

The page you link to has nothing to do with the productState value, it's a list of enumeration values that deal with what will be monitored by the Security Center.

The actual meaning of the values of productState, and most Security Center documentation, is, to the best of my knowledge, not public information, but only available under an NDA (see the 4th comment on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2008/05/12/how-to-get-antivirus-information-with-wmi-vbscript.aspx).