Funny story. I have a laptop from my company that they have for me to take home. They've become more and more restrictive, to the point that to even use webmail you have to connect to to the vpn. On my home computer, I set up a virtualbox, used one of my mb lifetime licenses on that box, and connect that way. On my laptop, they're using Kaspersky. They updated kaspersky, and I did the reboot, and Kaspersky was completely borked. I hate Kaspersky already, but that made me hate it with a passion. I tried to re-enable windows defender, but whatever they did to disable it appears to be permanent. Kaspersky said to repair it, but lo and behold they have disabled the repair option with administrative policy. So I downloaded a trial of malwarebytes, and am back up and running- hopefully support will get back to me within 14 days (it's been 2 days so far of non-productive time

). They seem to care more about security and vpns than productivity, so who am I to argue?