How do you install safe exam browser on linux? Wine? VM? : linux

[+] xhci@lemmy.ml 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] aard@kyu.de 21 points 11 months ago

Those same tips also apply to a windows user - there's a decent chance those applications try to do something stupid which ends up making your system more vulnerable. If you don't have a throwaway notebook for that the best option is to sit the exam at a university computer.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago

There's no need to have an entire laptop for that, just have a copy of Windows installed on a bootable USB stick (and disable your main drive if needed).

To make restoration even more easier, you could have Windows self-contained inside a .VHD file and boot it using Ventoy, which makes it easy to backup and restore. So once you're done with the exam thing, just restore the clean VHD back. And use a tiny debloated copy of Windows such as Tiny10 or something so that your VHD is much smaller, making it even more quicker to backup and restore.

[-] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 9 points 11 months ago

I actually bypassed it by modifying the monitoring .dll lol

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

That sounds like a terrible idea if they find out.

[-] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 4 points 11 months ago

if who finds out?

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 7 points 11 months ago

Your school. Won't you get flagged to them with some integrity check?

[-] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 7 points 11 months ago

No the code for SEB doesn’t upload any data. It’s done locally and it only checks to see if it has the config. Anyway this is for research purposes

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 7 points 11 months ago

Oh I see, nice job then!
Will you be posting how you did it exactly?

[-] Oliper202020@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Virtual machine

[-] space@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

VM with a legit windows installation in it.

[-] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

Some of these detect when they are run in a VM

[-] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 10 points 11 months ago

I actually bypassed it by modifying the monitoring .dll lol

[-] linucs@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Can you please explain how you did it or link to a guide explaining it? It could be useful to many people

[-] izolight@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

The last time i had to use safe exam browser i found out that it only detects the popular virtualization for windows and mac like vmware, hyper-v, vortualbox and parallels. Using just kvm on linux worked without getting detected.

[-] _s10e@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Can someone explain what's the point?

There's some exam, online, runs in a browser. Ok.

Now we require a special browsers. Why?

Which only runs on Windows, but not in a VM, unless you make a small change. Why?

To stop cheating, I assume, but what kind of cheating needs a VM? Maybe I'm old, but we had handwritten cheat sheets on paper.

Are students using cheat software now that solves math problems for an online exam? And if they do, shouldn't this score bonus points? Sounds like challenging problem to code an AI that she's your exam.

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