Tomas' Labroratory

API Monitors

When reversing applications it's useful to see what's happening under the hood.   Up until now I've either had to bring out OllyDbg and dive into assembly or rely on a high level tool like Systernals Process Monitor.   I'm fond of strace on Linux, but when I searched for "strace for Windows" resulted in tools that were not very reliable.   That was couple of years ago. Today I stumbled on these two API monitors that do exactly what I need on Windows: