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JGarnettAU's avatar
JGarnettAU
Explorer | Level 4
10 days ago

Suspicious "DropboxUpdater" file appears to be passing itself as legitimate Dropbox file

Hi, I'm informing you about this both to let you know that Dropbox may be being used as a means to get through firewalls, and to get this on the record for other people having the same issue. I will ...
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Neal Mc's avatar
Neal Mc
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12 hours ago

Hi JGarnettAU, the C:\Program Files\Dropbox\DropboxUpdater\123.0.6299.61\updater.exe binary is an expected change, and that as long as it has a valid signature from Dropbox it is legitimate.

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