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Windows Defender handles node_modules fine, and if you're dumb enough to choose something other than Windows Defender on ... Windows ... that's on you.

If you really want you can cut Defender out of the picture too: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/#underst...

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Sorry, but you seem to be missing the context here — this is an environment where these kind of decisions are not made by the developers, but are in the hands of other departments. So the choice of antivirus or other corpoware or disabling the antivirus is not something that the development team has any say in.

I hassled my IT guys to get rid of Symantec Endpoint Protection on my PC and leave me with Defender. You can too.

Trust me, there are environments in which you can't. Keywords: "DoD" and "consulting".

Yes, how dumb of me to not make a completely weird request to interview the corporate IT department of my job after I had been laid off for two months and was struggling to find anything in my area.

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