Trojan.BeamWinHTTP
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Short bio
Trojan.BeamWinHTTP is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a specific family of malware loaders targeting Windows systems.
Type of infection
Trojan.BeamWinHTTP is a Trojan that comes in the form of a dll, which is loaded to inject malicious code into http traffic on the affected system. Trojan.BeamWinHTTP has been found to add affected systems to a botnet that performed DDoS attacks.
Home remediation
Malwarebytes can detect and remove Trojan.BeamWinHTTP without further user interaction.