I'm going to reiterate the previous statement that you probably should go to your manager and get his or her
explicit approval for exactly what you are doing (with the company's computer ...) and why you are doing it. In my experience, companies almost
never knowingly let people do what you're saying they will "let you" do, for what really
are very sound and justifiable reasons. I also don't believe you .. frankly .. when you say that they're willing to let
you do it versus one of their own staff. (I say this politely but firmly, with my eyebrows arched skeptically and with a note of real warning in my voice.) If this is not something that you are clearly doing on your
own time, with your
own computer, and well away from your company's networks,
etc., then:
cover your !