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Ask HN: My school is making me use ExamSoft, how do I preserve my privacy?
Like many other students right now, I am being forced to use ExamSoft's garbage to proctor my online exams. I thought I would create a different user account and install it there to isolate it, yet macOS Big Sur installed it on all users.
Any and all help appreciated.
- throwaway888abc 6y agoVirtual box https://www.virtualbox.org/ https://www.virtualbox.org/
- Grazester 6y agoThat doesn't work. Or at least in the past it didn't
- private_joker 6y agoUnfortunately, VMs still don't work.
- uberman 6y agoA refurbished mac-mini is $275 from New Egg or a new MacBook Air for $320 from Wallmart at the moment. If that would help at all.
- private_joker 6y agothanks for the tip, but they aren't powerful enough to support ExamSoft's spyware.
- private_joker 6y agoNot my first choice, but how ill-advised is just installing it and uninstalling it before and after the exams?
- digikata 6y agoPerhaps create an external boot drive and run it from there?
- private_joker 6y agowill also try this! Thank you!
- endisneigh 6y agoCan't you just dual-boot a fresh OS?
- private_joker 6y agoWill try this route - have never tried two copies of macOS...thanks!
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agodoes anyone know of a simple way to prevent guest OS from detecting that its running under virtualbox? i had a similar software that refused to run in a vm and said "this software cannot run under virtualbox"...
- merlyn 6y agoThere's no simple way, the virtualization vendors have to write virtual hardware, and their signatures are all over everything in the virtualized PC stack. There are numerous ways to detect these, let alone the API hooks vendors leave in the guest OS for the guest to query the hypervisor.
- crnamafija 6y agoAs a non-American or someone who doesn't even know what's ExamSoft, what's the problem with this software?