Emacs default network activity

I recently started working in a environment (windows OS) where Anti Virus and Endpoint protections are in place. Now I don’t really want to live without using emacs, but I’m kind of concerned that I would trigger some AV when starting up or using emacs. To my question: If I only use the default config (no fancy packages, Melpa, Elpa and the like) would emacs do any network communications on its own as I start it?

> I’m kind of concerned that I would trigger some AV when starting up or using emacs. Chances are that your AV will trigger when you start literally any program. Scanning the software you're running is what they tend to do. (And as a FYI, although your Emacs will almost certainly *not* be built `--with-native-compilation`, for future reference [that can have an impact with AV too](https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/sed9oy/native_compilation_vs_virus_scanners/).)

Ah right, it will probably false flag it anyways then. Thanks for the link!