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I am working on doing a check for Firewalls. The following code quite easily checks the status of the default Windows Firewall: INetFwMgr manager = GetFireWallManager(); bool isFirewallEnabled = manager.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile.FirewallEnabled; if (isFirewallEnabled == false) { Console.WriteLine("Firewall is not enabled."); } else { Consoe.WriteLine("Firewall is enabled."); } Console.ReadLine(); private static INetFwMgr GetFireWallManager() { Type objectType = Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(new Guid(firewallGuid)); return Activator.CreateInstance(objectType) as INetFwMgr; } The question then becomes: How do I find the status of a non-Windows Firewall? If the Firewall is properly integrated, will the above check work just the same or is there a better method for doing this? I have checked this post: C# Windows Security Center Settings and this post: C# - How to chceck if external firewall is enabled? but both proved relatively unhelpful. I have been looking into the WMI API but it is pretty confusing so far, and the documentation via MSDN hasn't been too promising. I have also tried messing around with SelectQuery but so far I have been unsuccessful. Can anyone assist me in a new starting point or to where I might be able to find better documentation/instructions concerning 3rd Party Firewalls? EDIT: Currently I am exploring further into WMI, specifically the class FirewallProduct as suggested by a post. UPDATE 2: I have been testing the following snippet: strin

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