[unnouinceput]

SoftIce is in another league of itself. No other debugger can fully freeze your OS while you hunt down that elusive crypto variable that the other developer obfuscated in several DLL's in order to hide its true purpose.

Man, so much fun was back then.

Story time. One of my clients wanted to reverse engineer a trading algorithm and the only option was the nuclear option. Fully disassemble and in-memory hunting this encrypted, split into different DLL's function that was holding the entire algorithm. Warned the client that would take as much as half a year and can possibly run up to more than $100k. He accepted saying if it's successful then it can gain him millions. So I started the hunt. A few weeks down the road, my client, while we were chatting the usual status and whatnot, dropped the bomb. This algorithm was actually old, as in WinXP era. And I asked "do you have a WinXP variant of this that you'd be satisfied with if I manage to reverse it?". And he said he has. I took that one, prepared a WinXP machine with SoftIce in it and job was done 3 days later.

The level of control you have with SoftIce, you can't achieve it with anything else.

[voldacar]

Is there something that would make it impossible to write the equivalent of SoftIce for Win7/Win10, or has it just not yet been done out of difficulty/laziness/lack of market/etc?