WMI Security Center productState clarification

Question

I'm querying the WMI for "SELECT * FROM AntivirusProduct" on SecurityCenter2 (I'm on Windows 7 at the moment).

I'm having a hard time trying to find what do the numbers on productState mean, including AntiSpyware and Firewall aswell. Is there any reference for this out there? I want to make sure I can get the correct product states on any Vista or 7 machine (In case these numbers vary from machine to machine).

Answer 1

There's no official documentation on the productState values. The only info I could find is this article which makes assumptions about the productState value meaning based on the byte-by-byte analysis of the value.