Thanks everybody for shedding light on this sinister activity. What puzzles me is that this spyware showed up immediately after installing SynEdit, which is advertised as freeware *not* adware. It seems like a cool program, but they (him) got some nerve putting spyware on my system for what's supposed to be no-strings, no ads freeware. Thanks goes to Zone Alarm, the best thing I've downloaded in a long time. Does anybody know if we can simply delete the offending file without side-effects, or should we get the OptOut utility instead? It'd be easier to just trash the little bugger and get it out of memory.

I have also found this file in my system,blocked by my firewall(Atguard). It was installed when I installed GoZilla and I have tried removing it with OptOut but then GoZilla does not work.

Just adding my 2 cents...installed ZA, Installed GoZilla!...got the invalid page fault in MSIPCSV.exe Nasty of them. I knew it was adware, but I too have tried removing the advert file and GoZ stopped working. If you set it to disallow access, does that stop the reporting?

Hi, Thanks to Google and all of you, I'm understanding that this is NOT a system component, and why my computer connects by itself to the Web without starting the browser. But it shows an invalid operation message each time I start my browser or GetRight. Why? And I have the same question as Herb Walker. When it is active couldn't be deleted because Windows is using it, tells the message. I will try otherwise, including OptOut, and tell you.

Had the exact same deal going on. Zone Alarm alerted me, blocked IPC Server and downloaded OptOut. First time I ran the OptOut program it found 11 spyware files on my computer! Scarey to think how much stuff someone might have gotten. Thanks for the helps from everyone!!

every now and then when accessing the web the zone alarm was prompting do u..want ipc server to acces the net.i found the web all the way but no. thanks for google and computing.net and to pc zone for helping me to detect the spys

Thanks to www.techtv.com,www.google.com and www.grc.com, I have eliminated 46 Spyware files I didn't know existed and using the free OPTOUT.exe program from GRC, I elminated all of them including MSIPCSV.exe ... TechTV is a great source of information for PC and Mac users..

This is interesting; from aureate.com's privacy policy.. "Radiate has developed and distributed technology which allows Radiate to send advertising to computers which have downloaded Radiate's technology as part of larger programs. Radiate's technology exchanges information with a user's computer, and as part of this exchange, Radiate collects certain, nonspecific data about its users and aggregates its data. Radiate also asks users to answer nonspecific questions as part of a survey which appears when a user first uses any program containing Radiate's codes, so long as no other program containing Radiate's codes has never been installed and used on that computer; in other words, Radiate's survey typically appears once and only once on any given computer. The unvolunteered information Radiate collects is limited to data regarding the advertisements Radiate sends and the program containing Radiate's codes which a user has downloaded. Radiate is very concerned with the privacy of its users and, therefore, never sells data it collects, never collects data uniquely identifiable without the user's knowledge, and never combines user-specific data with the generic data it collects. However, Radiate fully understands that if an adequate disclosure of the functioning of Radiate's codes is not made to the user at the time of downloading, a user who subsequently learns of this functioning may feel a level of distress or concern at the perceived potential invasiveness of Radiate's codes. Accordingly, Radiate has taken steps to ensure that the owners and distributors of the shareware programs containing Radiate's codes provide full disclosure of the functioning of Radiate's codes, as they are required to do pursuant to their licensing agreements with Radiate. In addition, Radiate provides on its own web site, simple instruction to allow any user to fully uninstall any program containing Radiate's codes."

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Well after reading some of these comments I ran my "AD-Aware" programme which I have had for ages (but I forget to run) and whooo there was over 30 spy-ware on my system.....got rid of them below is the readme file with the prog: *AD-aware v2.01* freeware © Lavasoft 07/2000 ================== AD-aware scans your system for the common advertising-spyware Aureate and Conducent\TimeSink, and lets you remove them safely. Freeware for Win9x

Here's another work around... put this in your hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 ans1.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 ans2.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 ans3.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 ans4.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 aureate.com 127.0.0.1 overflow.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 radiate.com 127.0.0.1 www.adsoftware.com 127.0.0.1 www.aureate.com 127.0.0.1 www.binarybliss.com 127.0.0.1 www.radiate.com and lookie-loo, all the attempts to connect fail...

i just noticed this s---ty little program eating up 100% cpu. that aint cool at all.

Bless you. I am having the same problem and did not know what to do but now I know.

Can't I just delete this MSIPCSV.exe file ???

I just renamed msipcsv.exe to ... .exi and until now nothing unusual happend . . . I found 2 points in the Registry where msipcsv is mentioned. Can I delete these without getting trouble ? Even don't know if Gozilla is still running without MSIPCSV correctly. Must try today . . .

This is a nasty little beastie. uses MS at the front of it to try to make out it's a microsoft product, loads itself into the windows shell, hides from ctl-alt-Del and is processor hungry, comes with many ADware programs, mine came in DiabloSampler which is useless anyway. along with GetRIGHT, GOZILLA, GATOR, Audiogalaxy, KaZaA media Desktop, suggestion, use musiccity.com to get your filez it's spy free (almost) even WinAOL (WinAMP) is getting cheeky,