Topic created on: March 18, 2007 16:35 CDT by apridgen .

Stemming from drew's blog post:

http://www.openrce.org/blog/view/598/The_Greatness_of_PyDbg

What are the situations for using scriptable debuggers, and what are some advantages over using scriptable debuggers?  

For example: can the debugger be hidden, renamed etc.

I have only worked with interactive debuggers (e.g. WinDbg and Olly), and I can see some situations like in the case of malware analysis, where obvious advantages arise.  

Also, how would I know if I should use a scriptable debugger?  I guess experience would dictate.  

Simply getting familiar with the RE terrain, so thanks for any responses.  In understand this is a fairly loaded question, but again  I appreciate your responses.

Adam