not directly with Perl(at least not easily) if you just do it with a vanilla hyperlink, but the chances are good that your ISP logs this info. Several sites I administer have Progams like Webaliser or Analog that create reports detailing how many times each link was requested on which date,etc.

If this is not possible, you could do a number of tricks that would accoplish this via a cgi script. Either have the user click a form submit button that calls a CGI to update a text file or DB then redirects to the files location, or use a hyperlink that calls a similar CGI like

<A HREF="../cgi-bin/servefile.cgi?file=0111111.exe">Norton Definitions
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