Why use Softice over Olly?

OllyDbg is pretty fine (by me), but, i personally use SoftICE most of the time.

Quote from Fravia RCE FAQ :
"Is it better to use Softice or Ollydbg?
Even if Softice is more powerfull than Ollydbg, Ollydbg works well on most applications; the main difference is that Softice is kernel-mode and Ollydbg is user-mode... make your choice. "

From my expirience, there is much more 'anti protection' for SoftICE cuz it's more spread thru the crackers...

But, as advanced reverser, you should know how to use both of them, same as u use IDA and W32Dasm for disassembling ...

Hope this helps

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Fr1c [F8]

I prefer using Olly coz I think it is more comfortable than SICE, but sometimes I have to use SICE coz it's more powerfull (obvious), but software manufacturers use Anti-SICE tricks too much now.
So I think you should be able to use both debuggers. Just choose your favorite one and use it in most cases and the second one will be an alternative tool.

[TQN]

With OllyDbg, we can write a plugin for it. Write a "plugin" for SoftIce is hard, we need to write a KMD (IceDump, IceExt) or a WinDbg extension. Not many people can do it. And with OllyScript, we can automatic do many jobs.
The current version of OllyDbg can not load .pdb file from symbols path. I have mailed to Olek this problem. Hope he will fix it. If he not, I plan to write a plugin to load .pdb files of system DLLs and a plugin to invoke the MSDN from OllyDbg. I need more times.

[zEr0]

yes

i have the same opinion as many of us here

it's very very necessary to have many various tools, so it's good to have both of this debugger

then you can choose

i agree that olly is more comfortable than SICE and is much less anti Olly tricks than SICE antidebug

SI is good & Olly is good,but run on problem

olly is better than Sice, it's much easier to use.

olly works in ring3 and si works in ring0