If antivirus scanners come up at any point when the topic is things that are "critical" to the developer experience (let alone as the very first thing), that's a really telling baseline—the tip of the iceberg as far as indicators of organizational dysfunction go. You might as well be speaking from a place where every employee starts the day with a nailgun fired through the palm of their hand and then they spend their time gushing over lunch about how Acme Co. has the best woodsaws out of all the woodsaws because theirs are the ones that let you really get in there and cut away most of the plank—so you're just walking around with a medium chunk of wood fixed to the back of your hand, of course, instead of the whole board. Nuts.