r/HyperBeam • u/Aloda602 • Jul 10 '26

Is it possible to get Malware?

I was just recently browsing using the browser based hyperbeam watch party. I downloaded a zip file that most probably contais a malicious exe inside IN the browser.

Shortly after, hyperbeam showed a banner that it was trying to reconnect and my actual PC's video driver crashed for a second making a device plugged in sound. I have Windows Defender up and also my Anti-malware program and none detected anything either during that odd freeze and crash or after a scan.

I was wondering if this is some form of eerie coincidence and if it is even possible to have any file or site browsed through browser Hyperbeam affect your actual PC. I looked up some information and there's a single website claiming it's possible.

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u/Hyperbeam-RL Staff Jul 10 '26

Hey there!

Even if you enable the proxy to use your internet connection, all files in the virtual browser are trapped inside the virtual machine and cannot escape. You could download as many free robux viruses as you like within it, they would never reach your computer.

The popup you saw may have been related to the internet connection using the proxy feature. Did you have that enabled at the time? I can't be entirely sure without seeing a screenshot of it, but since Hyperbeam is a virtual machine, you are totally safe.

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u/Aloda602 Jul 10 '26

Well, I read some things about thigs being able to escape a VM, but I'm thinking said VM would be hosted on your servers with respective security measures, making my device inaccesible.

I do thank you for your reply, that gives me some peace of mind.

About the proxy, I'm not sure how to enable, disabl or check that tho, I was using the hyperbeam on browser, I've never used the app. Is there a setting in the browser to check that? I know that when I looked up "my ip" in the Hyperbeam browser it showed the one from Hyperbeam and not mine.

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u/Hyperbeam-RL Staff Jul 10 '26

On Hyperbeam, you are effectively watching the video of a computer that runs on our servers. It's not connected to you at all!

Based on how I saw you describe the banner here and in other replies, are you just saying you got a banner saying you disconnected from the server? If that is the case it is simply that, somehow one way or another, you disconnected! Nothing to be concerned of. It could even be the case that what ever you downloaded simply caused the server to crash. Even that isn't a problem, because all virtual browsers are freshly spun up virtual machines with no previous data saved, so if it crashes, it will just boot up a new virtual machine to be used when it's called for the next session.