Chapter 5. Beyond the Basics

In this chapter

Noninvasive Debugging
Data Breakpoints
Scripting the Debugger
WOW64 Debugging
Windows Debugging Hooks (GFLAGS)
Summary

Now that you’re familiar with the Microsoft Windows debugger types and the system foundations that support their basic mechanisms, it’s time to move beyond the basics and examine some additional features and strategies that are often needed for carrying out successful debugging investigations. After covering a few advanced debugger capabilities, this chapter introduces the important Global Flags editor tool (GFLAGS) and the debugging hooks in the Windows operating system that it allows you to control. As you’ll see in practical case studies in the chapters that follow in this part of the book, ...

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