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Topic: foobar2000 2.0 beta 29 - detected as a severe Trojan by Windows 11 (Read 692 times) previous topic - next topic
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foobar2000 2.0 beta 29 - detected as a severe Trojan by Windows 11

The title says it all. The latest x64 installer of foobar2000 2.0 beta 29 is detected as a severe level trojan by Windows 11.

Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml

I am certain that this is most probably a false alarm, or the antivirus recognising foobar's way of operation as malicious, but on the off chance it isn't and some 3rd party binary or library in the program is actually infected, it should be fixed asap.

Cuz windows doesn't usually flag files as Severe, and that's what made me write this post. Please take a look.

Thank you.

Re: foobar2000 2.0 beta 29 - detected as a severe Trojan by Windows 11

Reply #1 –
My Windows does flag "every" new version. Out of the installer, maybe?

But this week, Windows outdid itself: flagging not FLAC, but a FLAC file under re-encoding. (And I had encoded it myself from a CD rip, not downloaded it from some questionable site.)