Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE

Re:Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE by sirclueless on Monday January 23, 2012 @10:31AM (#3500640)

Title is a bit misleading. It's the site, www.dropbox.com, that is flagged. Which might be reasonable, considering that people can and do host arbitrary publicly accessible executables on dl.dropbox.com.

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Re:Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE by simcop2387 on Monday January 23, 2012 @11:40AM (#3500976)

I actually had it complain about dl.dropbox.com also when grabbing a file for work this morning. That's what made me post it here. IE wouldn't let me download a file from "an untrusted site" without jumping through a few dialog boxes.

EDIT: It looks like it's gotten some attention from MS at some point as it seems to have cleared up now.

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Re:Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE by biot on Monday January 23, 2012 @10:38AM (#3500679)

Would hosting user content on a different domain (eg: dropbox.net) shield the main dropbox.com domain from being flagged?

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