It has nothing to do with my IT administrator
It has everything to do with him. He is the one that allow/denies you things on the work system. Your question has nothing to do with avast but with what the admin allows/disallows you to do.
for some reason i thought this might be forum where people who actually knew would be the ones who responded.
Pondus and I have responded. And we sure know what we are talking about. No offense, but it is your lack of knowledge that prevents you from understanding how things are working.