Continuing the story Julio posted below Madeline Bennett from vnunet.com reports in a story by Hughes that "Virus writers have created secret P2P virus network" Pete Simpson, manager of ThreatLab at Clearswift says "It looks as though 2004 will be the year of the superworm".

To read more see this link.

We will of course try to keep you updated on any new threats during this year as soon as they emerge and also any new patches coming out from Microsoft.

It would however be highly advisable that you purchase an Antivirus Program and keep it updated aswell as a firewall if you do not already have it.

It is also a good idea to keep an eye on the Internet Storm Center and their daily updates.

Source: ISC

***free***

Good free client firewall: www.zonelabs.com

Good free dedicated firewalls: www.ipcop.org and www.smoothwall.org

Good free client Antivirus program: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Good free online based virus scan: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Good free online based security and virus scanner: http://www.symantec.com/cgi-bin/securitycheck.cgi

Good free antivirus scanner that fits on a floppy, finds ~40 viruses: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

***not free***

Good Antivirus program vendors: www.f-secure.com and www.symantec.com and www.pandasoftware.com/

Good firewall vendors: www.astaro.com and www.clavister.com

Note: these are my personal recommendations that I do have experience with, better alternatives might be available.

I use:
Panda Antivirus Titanium
Ad-Aware 6.0
Spybot Search and Destroy
and Norton's WinDoctor

To me this sounds like a bunch of New Year BS hipe spreading around

Possibly, but it's never wrong to have a little security