Surely as night follows day, fake Microsoft updates now follow Microsoft’s genuine monthly security updates. The real Microsoft updates come out on the second Tuesday of each month. By the second Wednesday of each month, there are fake patches being spammed around, each of which is, of course, really a virus.

This month’s fake Microsoft patch is a memory-resident virus called w32.pinfi, which, once leashed, can travel across networks and to attached hard drives.

W32.pinfi, also known as the Pate or Parite virus, is being borne in email which advises the user that the attached “patch” closes security holes in IE, Outlook, and Outlook Express, and is targetted at Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows…

[Beware the Fake Microsoft Windows Update Patch W32.Pinfi, Continued]