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This doesn’t answer your question, but I do have experience with applications like these. They are typically hastily coded to satisfy some arcane requirements, and give little thought to supporting non-mainstream setups. If you need SEB for something important, it may be worth trying to acquire a cheap windows laptop.
I always run into weird edge cases even if I can get software like that running, which often can be pretty detrimental.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I ran into this over and over with university and corporate software. I think the best course of action would be to write your controlling entity and let them know what’s going on (also maybe they’d give you a loaner computer).
Those same tips also apply to a windows user - there's a decent chance those applications try to do something stupid which ends up making your system more vulnerable. If you don't have a throwaway notebook for that the best option is to sit the exam at a university computer.
There's no need to have an entire laptop for that, just have a copy of Windows installed on a bootable USB stick (and disable your main drive if needed).
To make restoration even more easier, you could have Windows self-contained inside a
.VHDfile and boot it using Ventoy, which makes it easy to backup and restore. So once you're done with the exam thing, just restore the clean VHD back. And use a tiny debloated copy of Windows such as Tiny10 or something so that your VHD is much smaller, making it even more quicker to backup and restore.I actually bypassed it by modifying the monitoring .dll lol
That sounds like a terrible idea if they find out.
if who finds out?
Your school. Won't you get flagged to them with some integrity check?
No the code for SEB doesn’t upload any data. It’s done locally and it only checks to see if it has the config. Anyway this is for research purposes
Oh I see, nice job then!
Will you be posting how you did it exactly?
Virtual machine