“Bully tells nerd to come to school with more lunch money next time” ass bullshit.

I used to roll my eyes at the classic parental “if your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too?” and how obviously stupid the idea was.

Used to.

Anything that involves monkeying with HVCI is above my paygrade. I can’t afford to repair or replace anything right now.

The hypervisor bypass requires you to give a third-party program the highest level of security access your operating system has. The kind of access you have to reboot your system to grant because it can’t be done while the OS’s security system is currently running. It is extremely inadvisable to do this ever, for any reason, unless you are an educated expert or the system is disposable.

It also requires me to do things to my system that I’m not comfortable doing, so it’s not an option for me.