In case any one else is looking for a fix for Net::SSH2 to work with Perl 5.10, there seems to be a redhat patch that fixes it for me on Windows (scp_get no longer crashes): http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/devel/perl-Net-SSH2 Just mentioning this because I was looking for solution, and saw a recent bug report listed here. (Bug 39312 scp_get crashes in 5.10)