there has been no i news updates for a long time why? Also the latest threats list at www.avast.com has not been updated either why?
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think they’ve added the Win32:Zotob in the latest threat box somewhere around last August, 2005. 
That is correct but if you go to sites such as symantec you will see that they add new threats on there threat list very often. There is one that they added today.