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Occasionally, professors have enabled the malware features of DyKnow 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.<ref>[http://www.dyknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/monitor54.pdf]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.dyknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DyKnow-Step-by-Step-Guide-Full.pdf DyKnow Step-by-Step Guide]</ref>
==Running the Proprietary Software==
