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Is there Microsoft Security Essentials Api?

I want to to be able to deal with Microsoft Security Essentials (AntiVirus) in C#

and its operation like Scan ,and result of search
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Updated 14-May-14 2:29am
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Somewhat off-topic, but AFAIK there is no API. There is a command-line utility though so you could script something, capture the output, whatever

A quick Google search (hint) found this
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/05/16/hey-scripting-guy-weekend-scripter-scripting-microsoft-security-essentials.aspx[^]
and
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/bd97d9e6-75c1-4f58-9573-9009df5de19b/security-center-api?forum=windowssecurity[^]
 
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