Getting product state for Anti Virus using WMI.

Hi All,
I have seen lot on blogs and discussion on productstate for AV, AS and FW. But none of them give the complete information of product state.
Do MSDN has any link that explains the product state completely. Or any relevant link for this.
Moreover pre Vista os using WMI we can find the version of AS, AV ans FW, but in post Vista OS WMI does not provide the information of version of the product so how we can achieve this in post Vista os.

Have you looked at this?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj155489%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
thanks
Frank K [MSFT]
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