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FWIW, I've found Defender to be far less resource hungry that the likes of Mcaffee AV.

Yah Macffee, worse than most virus in the amount of energy and time it wastes.

Is Hyper-V enabled on your machine? If so, you could install a Windows VM, in which you could do as you needed.

Then ask IT?

But why? You get paid either way, what is the point?

If you get blamed for lack of productivity, are you going to be able to point the finger that way?