High Aspirations, Inc. has a few clients running Macs so when I saw this post by my personal antivirus software of choice, I thought it share worthy.

Author Lyle Frink says:

Mac computers running the beta version of avast! Free Antivirus for Mac were not infected by the Flashback Trojan.

“We’ve confirmed our app’s detection abilities for Flashback within the test lab and with reports from our beta testers,” says Jiri Sejtko, director of AVAST Virus Lab operations.

You can read the entire article on the avast! blog.

Visit avast! to find more information on and download avast! Free Antivirus for Mac.

High Aspirations, Inc.‘s content management system (CMS) and blog software of choice is WordPress. It has been for many years now. Not only is Tech Talk powered by WordPress, but more and more of our clients are using it to run either their entire site or just their blog.

There are many reasons to keep your site’s WordPress software up to date including getting to use new features, smaller updates now save you from the time-consuming massive upgrade later, and ease of use for both admins and users as site functionality is improved.

But, the most important reason to keep WordPress updated is security!

WordPress.org has this to say:

If a vulnerability is discovered in WordPress and a new version is released to address the issue, the information required to exploit the vulnerability is almost certainly in the public domain. This makes old versions more open to attack, and is one of the primary reasons you should always keep WordPress up to date.

Clients on maintenance don’t have to worry about any of this. High Aspirations, Inc. will take care of updating your site’s version of WordPress and any plugins it might be running. As part of that maintenance, we backup the site and database before updating. And, if your site is doing anything ‘involved’ such as e-commerce or managing a mailing list, we’ll do a test run of the entire update process on our test server so we are sure your live site’s update will be as smooth as we can make it.

If you aren’t currently on maintenance, just contact us. We’ll be happy to set you up with a customized maintenance agreement for just what you want High Aspirations, Inc. to handle for you. Or, we’ll be happy to give you a quote to just bring your site up to date.

avast! antivirus, my personal antivirus software of choice, published a blog post recently entitled "Misspelling goes criminal with typosquatting" that I thought worthy of sharing.

avast! is warning about the dangers of making a typo when entering a web site’s URL into your browser, or clicking through to a web site that isn’t really the one you wanted to visit. You aren’t just flirting with viruses, malware, etc., you might end up getting tricked into a scam which could cost you big time!

Avoid getting ripped off… read all about it.