Autodesk has a good article about what to whitelist in your antivirus program for Autodesk programs to function properly.
In the article there is a typo where an extra backslash "\" is inserted. There should not be a backslash between Autodesk and Shared.
It currently reads like this:
It should read like this:
You can copy/paste the paths from here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AdskLicensing\Current\AdskLicensingAgent\AdskLicensingAgent.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AdskLicensing\Current\AdskLicensingService\AdskLicensingService.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AdskLicensing\Current\helper\AdskLicensingInstHelper.exe
The FULL article may not be there much longer: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Are-there-antivirus-exclusions-I-can-implement-to-make-programs-run-better.html
I've printed it to a pdf and it can be downloaded here.
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