ProctorU...hell in a handbasket Part 1

[cypster]

Tedlum, Cypster,

I'm thinking if you are on Win7, you might run a virtual machine and possibly dedicate a portable drive to that machine. That may alleviate any issues, but what a PIA. As Cypster advised, once you've completed your exam, check all files and folders, run your security programs, remove the portable drive then sign off.

If anyone attempts to drop a file on your hard drive it would now be on the portable drive, which is basically a throwaway, and you are making it much harder for someone on a time clock to burrow into your computer. Of course this is only theory, you would have to test it to see if it would work.

Personally, I would first investigate the offsite proctoring service provider. If too far from me, I would use a dedicated computer, and use my phone (or another mobile IP) for internet access. I would also boot from a second portable drive when getting ready to test. Bottom line, I could never give a company such as this access to my main computers.

Absolutely Bricabrac! Offsite is what I intend to aim for first if it does not work out for whatever reason then I will go with a dedicated computer. Wish I had Windows 7 for it but XP with a temporary SL password and lots of antivirus will have to do for now I suppose. I would try the virtualbox flavor of virtual machines but I have not had much luck with networking in most of the virtual boxes I have tried to run in the past...