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Monitoring Joomla for file changes

It is often desirable to monitor a site for file changes, so that you can be alerted to unwanted file changes. Those could indicate hacker activity. There is server-side software that can do this for sites, but since our focus is Joomla, we wanted to take a moment to recommend the Eyesite component: http://extensions.lesarbresdesign.info/eyesite. To get the most out of this, you will need to set up a cron job so that it will email you whenever there are outstanding file changes.