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Recently I received a security threat alert triggered by Dropbox, as seen in the screenshot below:
What happened here? Or this is a false alert from Microsoft Security Essentials?
Nam G VU
Posted 2011-04-12T04:27:21.477
Reputation: 10 255
Security threat caused by Dropbox?
Answers
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This is nothing to do with DropBox - even your screenshot shows what the problem is. I'm guessing one of your computers with DropBox does not have an up to date antivirus, so it didn't pick up the infection, but when DropBox replicated those contents through to this computer it spotted it because of MSE.
The upside - your local machine is probably not infected, as MSE picked it up and suspended the file.
You will need to clean your other machines that share the DropBox though.
Rory Alsop
Posted 2011-04-12T04:27:21.477
Reputation: 3 168
+1 for mentioning other devices that sync with the same dropbox – BloodPhilia – 2011-04-12T14:37:26.197
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Submit a ticket or contact abuse@dropbox.com.
It seems one of your synced computers was infected with Ramnit.B and that (the file) synced with your Dropbox. Ramnit.B is not Dropbox specific.
phwd
Posted 2011-04-12T04:27:21.477
Reputation: 441
5Dropbox is just syncing files. The virus was provided by the user, not by Dropbox. – user39559 – 2011-04-12T12:45:17.603
1As said above, it's not a Dropbox problem if one PC puts a virus into the dropbox tree. – RichVel – 2011-10-13T07:36:58.313
Hit the apply actions! You are infected with nasty scripts. – Moab – 2011-04-12T13:55:25.077