any software that can do this?

[BennyD]

i want a piece of software that is able to take over a program and give information on it.

it could do this by running the program inside itself in a safe area and reporting the programs activity.

does anyone know a program that can do this?

 

[Nothinman]

"give information"?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Kinda sounds like strace ... but.. yeah. Windows I assume?

 

[BennyD]

by "give info" i mean it would tell you what files the program is trying to acces or what hardware it is using, things like that

 

[Nothinman]

strace would probably give you everything you need, it's not the easiest output to parse though.

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
strace would probably give you everything you need, it's not the easiest output to parse though.

sounds kind of like what i'm after, but does it restrict the programs access to your system

what i really want is a safe area where i can run potentially harmful programs and determine what they do

 

[Nothinman]

Your best bet there would be something like VMWare or bochs.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

There is systrace, a sort of firewall for software.

 

[BennyD]

damn, systrace is exactly what i'm looking for but it looks to be only for linux 🙁