(I'm not sure if this should go on StackOverflow.)
I have a program running at a customer site for ten years now. It takes their data and uses it to fill out web forms. It works by attaching itself to IE using SetWindowsHookEx().
Now the customer has chosen Microsoft Forefront as a corporate standard, and it's broken something. As best I can tell, it lets my program run, but intercepts the call to SetWindowsHookEx() as if my program were malware.
The program works correctly when I choose Run As Adminstrator, but that's not a practical workaround. I've started rewriting the app to use a more modern method of interacting with IE, but that's going to take a long time, and the customer needs a fix now.
Is there some way of configuring Forefront to trust my program? Does it have a way of whitelisting me?
This is happening under both Vista and Win7. The app is unsigned, and there's no Application Manifest (it's unmanaged C++).
