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Respondus LockDown Browser

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* Localized for multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese
* Available for both Windows and Mac computers, as well as iPad
 
===Malware===
LockDown requires administrative privileges to run, and cannot be run as an unprivileged user.
Features of the browser could be construed to violate [http://www.vt.edu/about/acceptable-use.html Virginia Tech Acceptable Use Policy]
by <em>engag[ing] in any activity that might be purposefully harmful to systems or to any information stored thereon...</em>, however
its use is not widespread enough for this to gain any note.
 
==Running the Software==
===Wine===
There are multiple tutorials available by a quick web search, which claim to get this working in Wine, however, to date, no member of
VTLUUG has succeeded in doing so, and existing information indicates it varies by version of the browser.
===Virtual Machine (KVM)===
This refuses to run in a Virtual Machine. It may be possible to add the <code>-cpu kvm=off</code> flag to Qemu to prevent it from detecting a virtualized
environment, but this has not been tested to date.
===Natively (Windows or OS X)===
To run on Windows, the software requires administrative privileges. Previous versions were shown to have used Internet Explorer with certain modifications
executed on the fly, to add the "Lock Down" features, however it currently appears to be a stand-alone browser with some resemblance to Google's Chrome.
 
On Mac OS X, it requires that <em>The Safari browser must be configured to the minimum requirements for the Learning Management System being used</em>,
indicating that it piggybacks off of Safari features, although it is unknown if it requires
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