Talk:SoftICE

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[edit] Using SoftICE to crack software

Additional commentary in reference to the person that highlighted SoftICE is used to crack software:

I have discovered a growing number of applications that deliberately disable themselves if SoftICE is run, but for the most part I care little as I'm debugging my own issues. This increase of cripple software however causes professional driver writers some headaches. For example, imagine you have a bug in a network driver that only occurs when iTunes streams music. Because of Apple's DRM debugging lock-out it makes finding the bug within your network driver much more tricky.

Despite the cost of SoftICE I'm a big fan of it. I find Microsoft's two-machine equivalent awfully tedious to setup and maintain; its rewards don't outweight the effort.

[edit] about Rasta Ring 0 Debugger

If this debugger is so good, it must be separated into another article, are not? --Yonkie 16:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

That rasta debugger doesn't look serious at all. The web page is cartoonish and says the disasm engine is buggy. I really doubt it can be called a replacement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.82.128.236 (talk) 23:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Versioning

Can someone who knows the version history include a paragraph about that, such as the last release before it was discontinued? Also, it seems like Compuware reset the version numbers when they started including SoftICE in their driver development suite. I'm not sure, but I think "SoftICE 4.0" is an earlier version than "SoftICE Driver Suite 2.6".67.169.183.167 13:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)