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Are you using any anti-malware software, by chance? There was an issue reported recently which sounds similar to your one (microsoft/vscode#134625), and someone suggested it was caused by a bug with Malwarebytes.
There are of course cloud services like GitHub Codespaces and GitPod which give you the "full" VSCode experience in the browser, by running extensions on a server in the cloud and connecting the web interface to such a server instance. Here, you could still install malware, but at least it won't run on your machine.
Yeah, Gitpod is pretty nice for what it is. Although it's worth mentioning that certain proprietary Microsoft extensions are licensed for use only in Microsoft distributions of VSCode, so they won't work in Gitpod. Most extensions do work, but Pylance, C#, C/C++ doesn't, to name a few exceptions. Although for C# there is a FOSS extension you can use instead and for C/C++ there is clangd.