Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml

[bmsn1]

Im getting a Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml from running btcd.exe Help explain

[guggero]

Virus scanners are notoriously bad with false positives. Bitcoin Core gets them all the time. So unless you downloaded btcd.exe from an untrusted source, it very likely doesn't mean anything. If you want to be sure it's okay, build the executable yourself. Or use it on a non-Windows system.