read McAfee last virus update date from registry

menno · Post by **menno** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:41 am

Hi team
i want to read the McAfee last AVDatDate update from the registry
I had some issues with my script.

I found this link but that did not help me

http://www.ks-soft.net/cgi-bin/phpBB/vi ... tune+reply

the start cmd line :

cmd /c cscript /B /E:JScript %Script% %Params%

The script:

Script:
const statusUnknown = "scriptRes:Unknown:"
const statusOk = "scriptRes:Ok:"
const statusBad = "scriptRes:Bad:"

Dim tZ, uKey, shell, lastUp
dim dateValue
tZ = 0 'time relative to GMT
uKey ="HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\McAfee\AVEngine\AVDatDate"
Set shell =CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
lastUp = shell.RegRead (uKey)
dateValue = DateAdd ("h",tZ,(DateAdd("s",lastUp,"01/01/1970 00:00:00")))

WScript.StdOut.Write statusOk & dateValue

i get as result :
[10:37:18] Agent: XXXXX is going to execute "Last McAfee Update" script ...
[10:37:18] Script started, no results received

Can you please help me out here ?
many thanks in advance
menno

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:46 am

If you need to check single registry value, HostMonitor offers Registry test method.

[10:37:18] Agent: XXXXX is going to execute "Last McAfee Update" script ...
[10:37:18] Script started, no results received

Looks like script fails for some reason.
Try to start it from command line without /B option, you should see error description

Regards
Alex

menno · Post by **menno** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:54 am

thanks Alex

if i DO NOT use the /B option i get this:

[16:50:54] Agent: xxxxxx is going to execute "Last McAfee Update" script ...
[16:50:54] Script started, invalid result received:
----------
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\TEMP\TMP-48~1.BAT(1, 8 ) Microsoft JScript compilation error: Expected ';'
----------

my new script is here:

Option Explicit

const statusAlive = "scriptRes:Host is alive:"
const statusDead = "scriptRes:No answer:"
const statusUnknown = "scriptRes:Unknown:"
const statusNotResolved = "scriptRes:Unknown host:"
const statusOk = "scriptRes:Ok:"
const statusBad = "scriptRes:Bad:"
const statusBadContents = "scriptRes:Bad contents:"

Dim tZ, uKey, shell, lastUp
dim dateValue
tZ = 0 'time relative to GMT
uKey ="HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\McAfee\AVEngine\AVDatDate"
Set shell =CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
lastUp = shell.RegRead (uKey)
dateValue = DateAdd ("h",tZ,(DateAdd("s",lastUp,"01/01/1970 00:00:00")))

WScript.StdOut.Write statusOk & dateValue

can you please help me out here
thx

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 9:06 am

btw: why you are trying to start VB Script using JScript (Java script) command line option?

Regards
Alex

menno · Post by **menno** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 9:17 am

thx alex
if i use : cmd /c cscript /E:VBScript %Script% %Params%
i still get

[17:17:20] Agent: xxxxx is going to execute "Last McAfee Update" script ...
[17:17:21] Script started, invalid result received:
----------
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\TEMP\TMP-29~1.BAT(18, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: '[string: "2016/06/22"]'
----------

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 10:30 am

>i still get
As I see you get different error - Type mismatch: '[string: "2016/06/22"]'

Probably here?
DateAdd("s",lastUp,"01/01/1970 00:00:00") while lastUp = "2016/06/22"
You read "2016/06/22" from the registry? and then trying to use this string instead of number that should represent seconds?

Regards
Alex