> There is no such thing on modern-day Windows. There are a number of ways. For example shell extensions. Even Chrome, which took great care to not load them m

> There is no such thing on modern-day Windows. There are a number of ways. For example shell extensions. Even Chrome, which took great care to not load them missed a few, which I used to get my DLL running inside Chrome without the antivirus complaining. This was some years ago, don't know if they fixed this (and is not really a bug, is by design, sort of). > you would have neutralized any antivirus software. That is extremely difficult and fragile. Much better to just not trigger it in the first way by behaving like a "normal" app. The user is also much more likely to notice a non-updating antivirus than some random process.