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CARoberts
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6 years ago
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What is beacon.dropbox.com?

Hi. Can someone tell me what beacon.dropbox.com is? My virus checker keeps blocking it with the following message:   "chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching securit...
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    Lusil
    6 years ago

    Thanks for getting back to me, CARoberts. 

     

    In general, all Dropbox content should originate from one of the following domains and, from what I understand, this also includes the URL you provided. As such, you should be able to whitelisted so that you don't get a prompt from your security app. 

     

    Hope this helps!

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Lusil
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6 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me, CARoberts. 

 

In general, all Dropbox content should originate from one of the following domains and, from what I understand, this also includes the URL you provided. As such, you should be able to whitelisted so that you don't get a prompt from your security app. 

 

Hope this helps!

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CARoberts
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated. Cindy

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