People competent to use Dropbox also use IE? Does not compute.
Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE
Microsoft has so far declined to explain why Internet Explorer this week flagged Dropbox as a phishing threat, in an apparent clash with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage. Customers manned the Dropbox forums looking for answers after IE started alerting them to the fact Dropbox was an unsafe site to visit and advising against …
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Friday 27th January 2012 15:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Mundane
Conspiracy theories aside, there is a more mundane explanation. In the past week there have been a number of spam campaigns (flogging penis propper-upper meds) using html pages on Dropbox redirecting to our Canadian Pharma friends. MS/IE probably forgot to include the rest of the URL path in the flag.
Meh, nothing to see here...
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Friday 27th January 2012 20:06 GMT Keep Refrigerated
Isn't it obvious?
Microsoft were just late (as usual) in joining the online blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. So they decided to actively give users a demonstration of what would happen to one of the services they enjoy if SOPA and PIPA were made law.
Of course, since MS have recently blitzed their marketing department they were unable to schedule a huge coordinated press release to accompany it; informing everyone how they were now an "online protest" company.
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Sunday 29th January 2012 12:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pre-emptive warning
Meh, instead of complaining we should be thanking Microsoft ;-)
Isn't it obvious? People used Megaupload for legitimate uses too yet they (most likely) lost all their files. So now MSIE will actively warn us before we're trying to upload our files onto any internet location which isn't Skydrive.
Safety first!