I send and receive many .pl files as attachments. Having recently applied MS mandatory security patches to my home PC, I have found that I was no longer able to read .pl attachments - either they were greyed out, or getting the message:
OE removed access to the following attachments in your mail

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I found a checkbox in the tools => options => security, for allowing all scripted attachments, and this allowed me to read the mail. However, unchecking this box allows .EXEs, VBscripts and other potential nasties.

<RANT>Surely sweet, innocent Perl does not belong in this category. I imagine someone could conceivably write a virus in Perl (this is not a golfing exercise or a challenge ;| we don't want Perl to earn that reputation), but this would probably require certain modules to be pre-installed, hence would fail on the majority of installations. Anyway, this asside, you still have to click the attachment to run it, and again, choose to run it instead of save it as it is - the OE setting turns of the save option as well.</RANT>

I was wondering if there was a list, in the registry or elsewhere, where Outlook Express keeps a list of the file types it thinks are suspect.

rinceWind

In reply to How do I get Outlook Express not to treat perl scripts as potential viruses by rinceWind

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