Anti-Virus Scan Within Dropbox

[azaries]

Does Dropbox have back-ground or upload scanning mechanism for files.  i.e. If a file got passed our anti-virus tool on the Desktop, would/does Dropbox scan the uploaded file for viruses?

Thanks

Steve

[azaries]

Maybe should have posted this to a different group?

Can this be moved to a more active group, or do I have reinput it all?

[Nancy]

Thanks for posting in the Ideas section, @azaries! 

Out of curiosity, what’s your current type of plan?

I’m asking because, if you’re on a Business team, you may be interested in this Security add-on. 

Let me know if you believe it’d help with what you want to achieve.

[azaries]

Hi Nancy,

Chatted online and  confirmed that we had Advance, so automatically comes with the Security Add-on.  I was searching for AV and missed this, so apologies.

I would still like to know what happens IF a malware file made it into Dropbox (maybe a brand new virus).  Would all our Dropbox files get corrupted? What protections are there in Dropbox to stop infection of all our files?

Thank you

Steve

[Walter]

Hey @azaries - sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that you can find out more information about this in this Help Center article. 

I hope this helps a tad, Steve. 

[rparvu]

Would be interesting to know what antivirus products support online scanning of the Dropbox.