Antivirus blocks hooking

[sarathy365]

Need: Identify all the applications that are opened, and kill some if needed.

While i am trying to hook explorer.exe, BitDefender(Advanced threat defense) blocks it.
Is there a way to skip this?

[mxmauro]

No. Antivirus blocks in kernel and, if you can skip this, the AV has a bug.

I think it is better to develop an explorer extension and register it in the system.

[sarathy365]

explorer extension

can you please provide more insight on this?

[mxmauro]

See this