hardware information

[dky1e]

Hi,

How can I retrieve the current computer hardware information, such as video card, network card... etc. This information will be used for fingerprinting of the system.

Thank you.

 

[seesharp]

Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI) can be used in getting any kind of hardware information from your system or even a remote system. for example processor name,version, bios version, manufacturer name.

name it and you can get it.

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hope this helps

 

[dky1e]

Yeah.. I've read a lot of stuff on WMI, but it seems that it's missing a lot. I need to get unique information for each hardware part such as the processor serial number on the video card.

Win32_VideoController seems to be missing it, or am I missing it?

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/r_32hard8_5epe.asp