Dropbox injects code into the Finder in order to draw the green and blue badges atop your icons. I prefer to run a clean system, and it turns out that you can prevent your Finder from being patched by running these two commands in Terminal: sudo rm -rf /Library/DropboxHelperTools rm /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxHelperInstaller.tgz I first heard about … Continue reading Disabling Dropbox’s Haxie