This past week several new viruses threats have been discovered. 

 The first is being called Witty Worm.  Witty Worm targets specific software-based firewalls like BlackIce.  While this worm causes actual hardware damage by overwriting random parts of the computer’s disk, it will primarily damage ISPs and web hosting services.

 Variants of Netsky and Beagle have been seen.  These viruses have their own email engine and will search infected computers for email addresses in outlook or other locations.  Another new virus called PhatBot/AgoBot has the ability to gather confidential information and many other things. A complete list of PhatBot’s abilities can be found at LURHQ.

 Both Norton Anti-Virus and MacAfee have new virus definitions available to detect these and many other new viruses.

 Microsoft has also announced updates to its Windows, Messenger and Office products.  Be sure to have AutoUpdate enabled on all of your desktop computers.