I dont know how many of you have had the displeasure of using Lockdown Browser, but let me tell you what, its a piece of shit program that is more like a virus than an anti-cheat tool.
This program is used by many universities to prevent cheating during online testing. On their site they say that the instructor may have you use your webcam to record whats around you before the test or even during the test as needed. Lockdown Browser does just as name implies: locks down your browser. Well, actually, you dont get to use your browser at all. You have to use theirs... which is based on IE9. Its not compatible with IE10+. When the program works as its supposed to you get nothing more than four buttons: back, forward, refresh, and stop. (Along with the exit, but I'll get to that later)
When the software works you lose many features of your operating system. You have no startbar, no ctl+alt+del, no alt+f4, no task manager, no shortcuts. You cant even logoff, lock, switch users, or shutdown your computer while its running. If you lose internet connection during a test with this open you will have to hard reset your computer. Upon restarting the computer you still do not have access to task manager nor the ability to shutdown your computer properly. Only logoff or lock. Doing either does not restore the features.
The software does not always run like its supposed to. Hell, I've only had it run properly three times in the last 12 months. The most common thing for me is to launch it, get the frame, and then have it disappear and only display a pure white screen with only my pointer. No access to anything else. The only solution is to hard reset.. which results like the aforementioned. I looked up some solutions and this is what they tell me to do: Uninstall IE10+, disable your anti-virus, disable your firewall, disable pop-up blocker, set IE to your default browser.
I'm not an internet security consultant, but that to me is ludicrous. I shouldn't have to put my system at risk because someone somewhere got scared about students cheating on an online test (which happens anyway). Cant run the software in a VM either.
[url]https://www.respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/[/url]
You're complaining because you're using a browser designed for a [I]specific purpose[/I] as a general purpose browser, when it was never designed to do that? Unless you're actually having problems with using it for its intended purpose (IE. online testing) then I don't see why you're complaining.
I hate it too but it's fine for taking tests on BB which is what it's designed for..
Use it in a virtual machine
[QUOTE=meppers;43973188]Use it in a virtual machine[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Code3Response;43965303]Cant run the software in a VM either.[/QUOTE]
For me, I could just start the browser again if it crashed for it to restore task-manager and what not.
Though personally I never found it to be that problematic, it was stable and served its purpose, though I was using Windows 7.
I do agree it's completely pointless (because there's just so many ways around the measures it puts in place), but that's what happens when technologically illiterate people in charge of policies. Then again, perhaps it's a matter of "keeping honest people honest".
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;43975304]VM doesn't work[/QUOTE]
Then he isn't obfuscating the fact that he is running it in a VM.
EDIT
Whoopsie wrong thread
Doesn't stop you from using another computer/smartphone.
Or well, if a site requests it, can't you just like, spoof your useragent or something?
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