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Keith15
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

Visiting the Dropbox web page breaks my PC's WiFi.

Application Affected (Dropbox Paper, Dropbox Website) Device (Windows PC) Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 11, All Browsers) Dropbox App Version (if using the app) (232.4.5...
Web
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Keith15's avatar
Keith15
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

Okay,

So I can confirm it was Avast. Switching it off and then accessing Dropbox works. 

I've added the following exceptions to Avast now and it works so hopefully it stays that way. 

https://www.dropbox.com/*

https://dropbox.com/*

Dropbox sync client path
C:\Program Files\Dropbox

Thanks everyone for helping. 

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