>I can guarantee you that having that password won't allow you in any way, to deploy persistent malware on developers's machines (first you'd have to work around Windefender)

SolarWinds recommended to proactively add exceptions to your AntiVirus such as Windows Defender for their stuff[0]. They probably followed their own advice for their own systems as well. Just saying...

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