A weird debugging question

Is this for a dongle?

LOL!

I guess, in a weird sort of way.

Company 'P' makes a $5000 video editing board, as well as some bloated software that only wants to talk to their board. (and, believe it or not, they charge extra for the software!).

Company 'N' is really cool and makes a better card for $3000. There are some people that want to run 'P's bloated software, but on Company 'N's board.

Company 'P' is stingy and doesn't want 3rd parties developing stuff for them, let alone producing things that could allow users to use their bloated software (that they PAID FOR!!!) on boards that Company 'P' didn't make. So, they don't provide SDKs. IDA's enough for me, thank you!!

Company 'N' likes it when additional software suddenly supports their board, and happily provide SDKs to 3rd parties, even people like ME.

So whenever I get a chance to jab Company 'P' in the ribs, I do so, and I always release the results for free. It's a hobby, you see. Death to Compnay 'P'!!!

I think I figured out how to do it. By creating a process and using a memory mapped file and a pair of named events, I should be able bypass DLL_PROCESS_DETATCH's limitations. Have all communications with the hardware take place out-of-process. It involves an extra memcpy, but I think I'll be OK.

Thank you for reading!

I read your post but i didn't get the problem, may be the post lacks the details, or may be i lack the organized mind to get it , But what is VTune?? is it Intel VTune?? and How could you use VTune to find that module??

Why can't u use OllyDbg or even SoftICE??

Thanks

Olly seems to be freezing Threads on my PC too...I guess that's why it become "catatonic".

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Relsoft Technologies
http://www.relsoft.net