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Is it dangerous if I store a copy of an infected website on my local disk?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026259 views
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First, I'm not into HTML and PHP programming. A friend's Joomla site was hacked by some sort of html injection, and now every php and html file has an iframe which is linked to some sort of malware page. And now I want to copy the infected files from the server to my machine and "clean" them. Is th…

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No, it's not dangerous to store. What you intend to do with them might or might not be dangerous. If you open these local files in a web browser, it will likely visit those addresses specified in iframes. Or JavaScipt in those files could do somethi…

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