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Title is a bit misleading. It's the site, www.dropbox.com, that is flagged. Which might be reasonable, considering that people can and do host arbitrary publicly accessible executables on dl.dropbox.com.


I actually had it complain about dl.dropbox.com also when grabbing a file for work this morning. That's what made me post it here. IE wouldn't let me download a file from "an untrusted site" without jumping through a few dialog boxes.

EDIT: It looks like it's gotten some attention from MS at some point as it seems to have cleared up now.


Would hosting user content on a different domain (eg: dropbox.net) shield the main dropbox.com domain from being flagged?




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