Maybe because Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is an enormous resource hog that scans every byte of memory and storage accessed by the Hypervisor an

Maybe because Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is an enormous resource hog that scans every byte of memory and storage accessed by the Hypervisor and performs a quadratic time computation on the data? I am just guessing because my “fastest” Windows laptop CPU money could buy feels like a hot smelting furnace and a sloth at the same time when I use VMWare Workstation. What the &$@* is it scanning the VMWare guests for?