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So unlike the traditional operation of an antivirus sandbox, Bitdefender as deployed at my work place does not allow programs to run while in the sandbox. Instead, Quartus gives an error about unexpected termination of it's child process, and between 5 and 10 minutes later Bitdefender finishes its sandbox operation and lets that particular executable run unhindered the next time (and typically stumbles into the next child process it does not like.)
For now, I am able to retarget some Max II CPLDs into Max V CPLDs. Eventually I will need to move on to retargeting Cyclone IV FPGAs, and I assume there will be additional blocked executables for the FPGA design flow that were not triggered in the CPLD design flow.
Given that there are 117 executables in the bin64 subdirectory, I was hoping Intel would work with Bitdefender to prevent the false positive threat detection as opposed to me having to spend a day running the design flow repeatedly until all the executables get flagged as benign.