in reply to Installing and securing server

The scope of an interpreter such as perl, php, python and so depends mainly on the implementation of the os where it runs.

Mechanisms for avoiding the execution of programs somewhere are implemented in the os (noexec option of mount, for example), like read/write/exec permissions are, and they are usually implemented in the kernel, not by userspace programs.

I think this is more a matter of W2003 than Perl itself.