I want to know if any antivirus software is installed or not...

I have observed that when we install any antivirus how it detects the presence of any other antivirus if its pre-installed on that machine ?

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In Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can find out if antivirus software is installed by going to the Security Center

You can find the Security Center on Vista under Control Panel, and on Windows 7 it is the Action Centre. In both cases you will see a screen somewhat like this one:

Windows Security Center

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Apologies, looks like the picture I found was a bit old and it's not named the "Solution Center", it's actually the "Action Center" which can be found by clicking on the little flag beside the clock in Windows 7...

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Use the EICAR test virus: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

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