We don't do the microsoft clients but what you have is their "solution" to all the virus' that outlook distributes.

I don't distribute scripts via mail because that teaches my users bad habits. It took me a couple months to get them to not click on stuff that came through their mail! *sigh*

There has been a Perl script virus. Some knuckle head tried to post one to the code section. So it is not entirely correct to say Perl does not belong there.

With all the people that hate Microsoft, if they saw Perl was execluded they would use it.

If you have a decent virus scanner installed, you might check it for mail scanning. If it has it, then enable it and turn off the outlook attachment option.

In reply to Re: How do I get Outlook Express not to treat perl scripts as potential viruses by Marza
in thread How do I get Outlook Express not to treat perl scripts as potential viruses by rinceWind

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