There's yards and yards on the recent Crowdstrike quality-control snafu taking out a hefty percentage of the corporate MS-Windows systems, precisely because their AV software requested and required extreme-deep-level access. But that's not the case with Stilly, I presume.
Ultimately, we all have to trust *something*, and it's up to each of us to choose what we trust. This message will self-destruct in fifteen sec*FOOM*