Sometimes, you don't know you're sharing

[Rowena, Group Owner]

http://searchcompliance.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid195_gci1376540,00.html

I had an experience like this. Someone sent me a link to Dropbox, so I could download a voice recording that he had done for me. It was legit.

To my horror, the site immediately snagged and duplicated a bunch of my private stuff and uploaded it.

It took a while, and a lot of searching before I could figure out how to uninstall and delete.

[Guido]

It is about high tide for that. I've often been wondering about this, particularly with viruses. What prevents a virus from getting in my system, silently setting itself up as a p2p link and sharing out data and files without me even knowing it is there?

Another reason to use a Mac instead of one of those super-vulnerable Windows machines.

[Rowena, Group Owner]

Guido, I was on a Mac.

[Guido]

Yes, I can see that happening with the Dropbox as it is by definition considered public. It's a good idea to be careful with what you put in there, I suppose.