title: detect currently installed anti-virus
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicates:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1331887/detect-antivirus-on-windows-using-c">Detect Antivirus on Windows using C#</a><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459350/how-to-detect-if-a-virusscanner-and-or-firewall-is-installed-and-a-few-other-se">How to detect if a virusscanner and/or firewall is installed? (And a few other security-related Q&#39;s.)</a>  </p>
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  <p>is there a way to detect currently instaled av without searching for known processes?</p>