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calm_volcano
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2 years ago

An outside company is sharing phishing documents with my team's Dropbox account.

A company I've done business with shared a document to my account that is infected. How do I delete it without opening it? And, i'm not sure someone hasn't opened it already because people can see it...
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Mark
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2 years ago

How was it shared calm_volcano ?

 

Was it a link sent to you or a file in a shared folder?

 

This may also help to have the file removed completely. 

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    calm_volcano
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    it showed up as an email with a link, from two companies - one that I know (all outdoors) and the other that I don't (which I didn't click on.  I sent the but then it was in my dropbox and I right clicked to delete it - doesn't work as I found out - and then it started to open, which I cancelled, but... its just sitting there somewhere inside my dropbox... not sure if its open or not. I send the email to abuse@dropbox

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