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theres nothing about windebug the microsoft tool...

If you read the signature under your name, you would know you should use the "SEARCH" button at the top of the Forums before posting a question.

Go to that button and enter "win debug" (without the quotes) and you will find 15 threads which mention it.

If you enter "windbg" (again without the quotes) you will find 51 Threads which mention it.

If you go to google and enter "windbg" (again without the quotes) you will get about 87,600 entries.

So do you really have a question, other than you don't see a reference to windbg in the FAQ?

Regards,

And if someone wants to write a short blurb about WinDbg, or anything else for that matter, suitable for an addition to the FAQ, we'll gladly add it. That's the way things work around here.

Kayaker

no real question just thought it would be a good edition to the faq i didnt
use search/google etc becase i was not actualy looking for that at the time
(was looking for syntax to set brk point on messagebox which i found with
search)
just noticed a gap
read the faq completely top to bottom before i first posted and followed the
instructions at the bottom of the faq

Scat

Well, I think the problem is that Windbg has not yet gained wide acceptance in the RE community, most people who, want an easier to use debugger or can't get Sice working on their XP machine have switched to olly. I personally think that Windbg is the logical replacement for Sice - but, for various reasons, mostly laziness I'm using olly - there is lots of info on Windbg if you search using google, but I've not seen any reversing tutorials using it yet - maybe you could be the first to write one!

SiGiNT

perhaps but i dont really consider myself expert on it when i do i guess i could

I've been meaning for a long time to write a GUI front-end plugin for WinDBG so that it has an OllyDbg-like interface. Maybe I'll get around to working on that in the next year or so :\

what i found more intresting not that i have the skills to make a plugin like that but ida has some very nice features what if IDA was to connect as a debug client to a proxy and windebug was to act as a server and the proxy was to connect to the windebug server and the proxy handled the translation then you could have all the power of windebug but inside the ida gui with xrefrences and usefull stuff

That's actually a very good idea. The only problem is that IDA's GUI doesn't have a lot of the features that OllyDbg has. But other than that, I like your idea.

well i know of one such tut though tends to be a little noobish for reversers here
i would say its a good introduction to windbg

http://uninformed.org/?v=1&a=7&t=txt