I was trying to write a Perl program to create and add-to an Excel spreadsheet using win32::ole.

The problem occurs when I try to open the spreadsheet. I think my antivirus is trying to look at it first and slows down the "opening" so that the windows interface fails to open the file. The reason I think so, is that I can put a breakpoint before the open, go to the Excel application and open the file, close the file, and then continue with the program. If I do this, the program is able to open the file, otherwise it fails.

Is there any way to put a time value into the win32::ole process to allow for the antivirus to check while opening the program?

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');  

my $Book;
    $Excel->{Visible} = 1 ;

     print "$fileName \n" ;
       unless ($Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("$fileName") ) {
        print  "can't open spreadsheet $fileName \n" ;
  }

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In reply to win32::ole and antivirus clash by cammac

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