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DISCLAIMER
This software is still under development and hasn't been tested extensively (yet) on a large combination of processor architecture/operating system platform configurations. In fact there is a concrete probability that it will not work on your computer and this means, having been implemented as a kernel driver, that it will may hang your system! For this reason this software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. Furthermore in no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
DETAILS
Version: 0.9. / Build: 107. / Supported platforms-architectures: Win2000/32bit/SP4 ONLY.
Copyright © 2003/4/5 VPC Research. All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION
BugChecker is a MS Windows 32-bit kernel-mode SMP debugger (ala SoftICE) that is aimed mainly to reverse engineering enthusiasts. It is still under development and some features, such as full source code symbols support, have been coded but are still not exposed in the debugger itself. The purpose of this release is to give the opportunity for the very curious to evaluate a rather early version of this product.
Please consider only that being an initial version of the software, the only platform supported is Windows 2000 SP4. I'm doing this because I have focused my programming efforts (in this stage of the work) mainly on the architecture aspects of the debugger compatibility (with tests on 32-bit Intel processors) and I have postponed the fixes required to the software for running on the other Microsoft platforms other than Windows 2000 (WindowsXP/2003, Longhorn eventually.).
Consider that I have tested the software mainly on my Pentium-3 equipped machines (a Dell Inspiron 800 with a Pentium3 700MHz and a Supermicro server with two Pentium3 1GHz). I cannot guarantee that it will work (yet) on your computer! If it doesn't, please drop me a line at this address, if you want.
COMPONENTS
BugChecker consists of two components:
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BugChecker Debugger driver: this is the debugger itself. It is implemented as a Windows NT Kernel Driver. This means that you can debug with it both user mode and kernel mode code. The driver is installed in the registry with a startup mode set to "manual". This means that the debugger is not started until the user expressly starts it issuing a "net start vpcice" command. |
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BugChecker Video driver: this NT Driver is required in order for the debugger to be used. Its start mode is set to "boot" and it is started when Windows 2000 is booted up. This simple driver (compared to the dubugger driver itself), when started, hooks and patches some DirectDraw API entry points in order to be notified about the current video display mode and the start in kernel protected memory of the display framebuffer. Its hooking features and actions can be inhibited at the system startup keeping pressed the "X" keyboard key (useful in the case of incompatibilities and problems of the hooking technology itself with your system). |
INSTALLATION (WIN 2000 SP4)
For installing the debugger on your machine, download the zip file at the bottom of this page, run the installation executable and then click the specified link button under the paragraph named "Installation".
UNINSTALLATION
For uninstalling BugChecker from your machine, run the installation executable contained in the zip file and then click on the specified link button under the paragraph named "Uninstallation".
USAGE/FINAL NOTES
You must restart your system in order to make the Video driver start up properly. Then at the command prompt issue a "net start vpcice" command to start the debugger.
WARNING: I strongly suggest you to download from this location the always useful "sync" utility by Mark Russinovich. You should lauch it from a windows console immediately before issuing the "net start vpcice" command. This will allow to have all the contents of the file system cache of your system flushed to physical disk, in the case of a system crash.
When the debugger is loaded in the system, press "left ctrl + d" for opening it. For further informations and usage of this preliminary version, check out this address.
DOWNLOAD
Download the zip file from this location (292KB).
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