Absolutely not. I use a virtual instance of windows for that stuff. I'd never do web browsing like activities (or much network connectivity at all) on a machine

Absolutely not. I use a virtual instance of windows for that stuff. I'd never do web browsing like activities (or much network connectivity at all) on a machine that was about to compile a binary that might be duplicated thousands of times to thousands of places. The Parallels windows pc on my mac was hit by this very problem. I had to restore to a 3 day old snapshot just to get it running again. I feel bad for those who were running windows bare-metal who can't just press a button and go back.