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kedronwealth
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Why are "BROMIUM" folders being automatically created within Dropbox?

Hi All,  We have only just recently had a new folder automatically being created insome of our dropbox folders called "BROMIUM" which is supposedly for security purposes withnuntrusted files.  We hav...
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Rich
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7 months ago
kedronwealth wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to stop these BROMIUM folders being created automatically?

They're likely being created by HP Sure Click or HP Wolf Security. Ask on the HP support site or uninstall/disable that software.

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