How do I monitor the exact activity of a process

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I wanted to make an anti-adware. I have a very good idea on how is it going to work but I'm having some problems monitoring what another process is doing. I want to know if something is injecting a thread (and know exactly which process it is injecting into) and if it is doing something to the disk (what is it doing, making a directory, making a file, editing something, etc).
Thanks for your help

What I have tried:

Unfortunately I haven't been able to try anything as I'm very unexperienced in going beyond my own process

Posted 23-Jul-16 3:16am

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Updated 23-Jul-16 5:32am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2016-07-23T05:32:00

If you are very inexperienced then it is unlikely you will be able to succeed with such a project. Antivirus Monitors and similar applications are quite complex, and you would need to have a very good understanding of the internal workings of the Operating System (Windows, Linux etc.) that you are targeting.