Antivirus Check in Login Script MTechG 5/23/2007 5:22:01 PM I got this link from MCPMag.com http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1768#post For all of my remote users I'd like validate that some form of Antivirus is installed and uptodate before they are validated to login. Would using a PowerShell Script be the best way to do this or is there a better way using AD? With a PowerShell Script would it be able to return these types of variables? I've never used it before but seems very powerful just from the test I've done from the article. All my clients are Win2k and XP. TIA D

Re: Antivirus Check in Login Script Jeffery Hicks <jhicks[ at ]sapien.com> 5/23/2007 5:48:02 PM MTechG wrote: [Quoted Text] > I got this link from MCPMag.com > http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1768#post > > For all of my remote users I'd like validate that some form of Antivirus is > installed and uptodate before they are validated to login. Would using a > PowerShell Script be the best way to do this or is there a better way using > AD? With a PowerShell Script would it be able to return these types of > variables? I've never used it before but seems very powerful just from the > test I've done from the article. All my clients are Win2k and XP. > > TIA > > D I used PowerShell because 1) it made for an easy example and 2) I wanted people to learn more about it. The real work is using WMI. You could write a VBScript to query WMI for the same information. Set objWMI=GetObject("WinMgmts://localhost\root\SecurityCenter") strQuery="Select CompanyName,DisplayName,VersionNumber from AntivirusProduct" Set colItems=objWMI.ExecQuery(strQuery) For Each prod In colItems WScript.Echo prod.CompanyName WScript.echo prod.Displayname WScript.Echo prod.VersionNumber Next You made a comment about validating a user before they can logon. Once the logon process starts I don't think you can terminate it. You can display/check antivirus info, but if you don't like it I don't think you can prevent the user from logging on. At least with a simple VBScript. Finally, if I recall, this class is not available on Windows 2000. -- Jeffery Hicks SAPIEN Technologies - Scripting, Simplified. www.SAPIEN.com VBScript & Windows PowerShell Training - www.ScriptingTraining.com/classes.asp Windows PowerShell? - www.SAPIENPress.com/powershell.asp blog: http://blog.SAPIEN.com blog: http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com