ThreateningYeti VS NSudo

With this new information, I was interested in seeing if this software is as air-tight as Respondus markets it to be. After all, with all these compromises in privacy, it must offer a secure testing environment, right? Well… Researching for “Lockdown Browser bypass tools” lead to me this archived project by TheateningYeti on GitHub. This software is one of many bypass tools authored with the sole purpose of rending Lockdown Browser useless. It should be noted that to avoid accusations of academic dishonesty I will solely be covering this out project, as an example of a bypass tool, as it is outdated and no longer effective. I will not be providing any existing tools nor will do I endorse the use of such software. This project has since been discontinued as, according to ThreateningYeti, “...cat and mouse game has gone too far to publicly release an open-source bypass.”. In other words, this project was not discounted due to it being impossible to create a bypass tool for Lockdown Browser, but rather because the work did not continue as, to ThreateningYeti, the rewards were not worth the effort. Why is this important then? This project is of vital importance as it demonstrates just how ineffective the Lockdown Browser can be and bypass tools are not the only way of mitigating this software either. The Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech states on their wiki that

Before you update you could try starting Task Manager with NSudo under the SYSTEM account. Might bypass that access is denied error.

NSudo is Open Source

That file is NSudo, an open source sudo-like tool for Windows. If GenP were malicious, it would most likely be the other files, not NSudo.

And I have that batch file in the same folder as NSudoLC.exe when extracted from the latest NSudo release from https://github.com/M2Team/NSudo/releases This should also work fine on 10.

i looked up the code a bit and it actually disables the defender.. the only red flag here IMO is it disables a lot of protection like network firewalls too, so now you won't get any alert for threats and intrusions, and it downloads(see this and this ) a tool your local machine though, but it is an opensource tool which is used to access high privileged files commonly used by developers to test and debug.. other than that it doesn't send any info from your machine to any external servers.

NSudo - A Powerful System Administration Tool.

You could always manually re-create the service referencing a clean windows 10 image (services.msc). I should probably note that this service is generally owned by Trusted Installer and should be re-created with the same privileges to avoid any conflicts (or security holes). Worse case scenario run Services.msc with NSUDO https://github.com/M2Team/NSudo