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'''DyKnow Vision''' is proprietary classroom software made by Dynamic Knowledge Transfer, LLC and used by the [[College of Engineering]] at Virginia Tech. It is mostly written in C# but has many native components and cannot be run with [[Mono]]. Attempts to run it under [[w:Wine (software)|Wine]] have been unsuccessful. Both DyKnow Vision and DyKnow Monitor, which comes bundled with DyKnow Vision, includes are known to contain malware-style features such as application and URL blocking, allowing for remote opening screen capture and closing of programs and displays of student screensforced full-screen.

Occasionally, professors have enabled the malware features of DyKnow products Vision in class, forcing full-screen mode and spying on students. More specific information regarding this would be informative. In earlier versions of DyKnow, certain key combinations could easily break the forced full-screen mode. Unless students give consent to have their privacy invaded by merely showing up to class and running required software, the malware functionality breaks the [http://www.vt.edu/about/acceptable-use.html Virginia Tech Acceptable Use Policy], but to date, this hasn't seem to have garnered any attention. DyKnow Monitor, which comes bundled in some versions of DyKnow Vision, includes malware-style features such as application and URL blocking, remote opening and closing of programs and displays of student screens. DyKnow Monitor can be prevented from installing by editing the MSI to set a DONT_INSTALL_MONITOR flag. In the current version of DyKnow provided by Virginia Tech, the DONT_INSTALL_MONITOR flag is set by default. However, DyKnow Vision retains many malware features, such as forced full-screen mode and remote screen-capture.