How to Hook Programs to Explorer?

I have a program that is hooking onto explorer, so when that application is
executed it first executes some kind of installer then brings up explorer.
Is this done through anything in the registry and if yes which paths?

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Will

Eric
Mon Feb 26 13:34:59 CST 2007

Will wrote:
> I have a program that is hooking onto explorer, so when that application is
> executed it first executes some kind of installer then brings up explorer.
> Is this done through anything in the registry and if yes which paths?
>

Hey Will

first of all you might have to determinate whether the hook is a Kernel-
or - Usermode one. If its a Kernelmode hook the work is not done by
using a path or so. But if you suggest the hook to be a Usermode one,
there is the possibillity to load a dll into any process that loads
user32.dll (and of course the explorer does). This works by adding the
dll´s path to the following registry-key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\
AppInitDlls.

Hope this will help you

Regards Eric