Find out if Windows Defender disc scan is running?

Question

The Windows Defender disc scan takes a lot of performance from the system. Is there any way for a C# application to find out if the disc scan is currently running?

Answer 1

example using IE:

Process[] ProcInfo=System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("iexplore");

Answer 2

You can probably determine this by looking up the process MSASCui.exe.

Try this code snippet:

using System.Diagnostics;    

Process[] procList = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("MSASCui");

bool defenderIsRunning = ProcInfo.Length > 0;