![]() ![]() Thursday, evening, just prior to writing this up - I decided to attempt a re-install. I checked and discovered that Dropbox had not loaded. Wednesday, morning - I noticed when downloading a Google document I had completed, to a dropbox sub-folder on my laptop for backup and syncing with cloud storage, that syncing was not happening. Regarding this issue: I did nothing more, other than no longer use Dropbox, for the remainder of this day. I then ran a full system malware scan, and, in addition to that file, it found and quarantined a total of three more files, all infected with the same version of Eldorado, as follows :Ĭ:\program files (x86)\dropbox\update\download\\46.3.59\DROPBOXCLIENT_46.3.60.EXE There are indeed both.Īt this point I assumed an automatic background upgrade installation had been in progress (I've had DropBox on this laptop for 7+ years). Next I went to the dropbox folder and visually verified that there actually was both a 'client' folder, and a 'client_46.3.60' folder created on this same day. I know that there should not be, other than during upgrade installation, other 'client' folders in the dropbox folder. ![]() Is infected with w32/s-462f1630!Eldorado, and System Mechanic quarantined the file. c:\program files (x86)\dropbox\client_46.3.60\psutil_psutil_windows.pyd Tuesday, afternoon - Iolo System Mechanic System Shield Pop-up window appears stating it found a file infected with the Eldorado virus, said file at this initial report was: This is my experience regarding this issue, in case it helps someone, which I have just discovered has resolved itself. I believe this may have something to do with Dropbox per se, as it doesn't appear to just be limited to users of Iolo System Mechanic.
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