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Hacked Sites?

JamesJB

Published on December 10, 2018

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Just curious, but we are told that the best way to safeguard one's site is to back it up regularly, which I agree.

However, let's say your site has been hacked and you don't realize this.

In the meantime, you do a complete backup.

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Once the offending files are removed, through SiteSupport, or you do it some other way, won't restoring your backed-up files also bring down the original problem back to your site?

In such cases, how can you get rid of the offending files?

I was just thinking...

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