Hi Need help Can anyone guide me on how I can retrieve anti

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Hi Need help Can anyone guide me on how I can retrieve anti virus info on the mac darwin os For windows I was able to fetch the info from the windows security products Not seeing the same for mac Thanks in advance

fritz · Answer

No such table exists on macOS because no such concept exists in macOS The API leveraged on Windows is available because security products register themselves with the Windows Security Center API On macOS there is no central security registration API which would serve as a reasonable analogue

fritz · Answer

The closest thing would be to look for System Extensions which are built on the Endpoint Security framework

Tor Houghton · Answer

Some products don t register there com objective see blockblock and com objective see ransomwhere for example but can be found in the launchd table you could perhaps look for non disabled entries Or look for related items in the processes table

Tor Houghton · Answer

Obviously you would have to know the name of the products and what they register as

fritz · Answer

Correct on macOS there is not a good canonical way to look for the presence of security software

fritz · Answer

short of writing maintaining a custom query that searches known locations datasources

Jason · Answer

I personally look for my desired process running

Jason · Answer

A fun project would be to gather canonical process names for all Mac AV software and provide a cannned query for this

fritz · Answer

< Jason> I think we have different personal meanings for the term fun project wink

Jason · Answer

People tell me that all the time