Did not have spyware in mind, just curious where this file comes from . It's also in the official distribution under the SAPI folder. No, not that easy. Now I remember this old issue. You still have to get libint-1.dll and iconv.dll and copy them to the windows/system32 folder. The iconv.dll is included in the php distro, however libint-1.dll is not. After some searching I found a working one in the older PHP 4.3.4 archive. This works with PHP 4.3.11. Not with 4.4.0. Cheers, Mac