&gt; I find it amazingly short sited that antivirus software is even allowed on a medical device to begin with.<p>Well... Then you should consider yourself blessed to have never had to deal with the bureaucracy of a hospital IT department and administrative staff.<p>Who owns the medical device? Who paid for it? If it&#x27;s a glorified Windows machine and it&#x27;s attaching itself to a hospitals WiFi network... Who has to use this machine? Physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, other specialists, nurses, staff? All of them need to be trained on it&#x27;s usage, no doubt. They don&#x27;t get that training in schooling. Who provides it? This and a million other things stack up. So, well, I mean it can start to make sense how these things end up with random AV software installed on them, right?<p>&gt; How is it you &quot;go hoarse having the same conversations?&quot; Do you not have to meet FDA compliance criteria? Are you in the US?<p>Yes, we are. Yes, we do &quot;have to meet FDA compliance.&quot; I can&#x27;t define &quot;have to meet&quot; and I work here. Of course, I&#x27;m just an engineer. We have legal, executive, and other staff for <i>those</i> matters. I&#x27;m sorry, I&#x27;m not trying to be an asshole... I&#x27;m just trying to be honest about where I find myself in this situation.