User-mode hooking is dead. It’s also considered harmful due to interference with OS-level exploit mitigations like Control Flow Guard (CFG). At BlackHat US 2016, the “Captain Hook” talk revealed there were multiple serious security issues in AV hooking — we will put the final nail in the coffin by showing how trivial it is to bypass user-mode hooks. We will demonstrate a universal user-mode unhooking approach that can be included in any binary to blind security software from monitoring code execution and perform heuristic analysis. The tool and source code will be released on GitHub after the talk.