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Safe?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 21, 2007 08:00 PM

is "strace" and "ltrace" safe to run on executables?
Will it execute the binary?

Sounds like two good tools that can come in handy for inspecting suspect files such as malware, like virus, worm, trojan, keylogger, botnet, etc.

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