Dropbox is dangerous

[Richard England]

Ditto Gary's comment.  Currently using Dropbox  on Fedora 21 on 3 
systems and my Android phone and haven't had a hiccough I can't trace to 
my fat fingers.

~~R

On 02/16/15 00:57, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've been susing Dropbox on Linux, Windows, Android etc. for years without
> issue. Work uses them all the time for sync'ing with business partners.
>
> Software goes wrong sometimes. With the infinite variety of installations it's
> impossible not to. Don't get parranoid folks.
>
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> On Monday 16 February 2015 02:47:12 Roger wrote:
>> On 16/02/15 12:52, jd1008 wrote:
>>> On 02/15/2015 05:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
>>>> On 02/15/2015 07:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>>> Mickey writes:
>>>>>> My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything.
>>>>>> I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU
>>>>>> and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then
>>>>>> I uninstalled it and now my computer is back to normal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What the "H" is happening ?
>>>>> NSA.
>>>> Come on Sam, This is Linux I'm using not Windows.
>>> Precisely!!
>>>
>>> I still ditto Mickey. dropbox is a trojan.
>> I am not sure about this comment. I have had Dropbox on both Fedora and
>> Ubuntu and not an issue.
>> With a goodie bag of alternatives to Dropbox which I have never tried,
>> maybe it's time to try elsewhere.
>> Roger
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