Chris Masters wrote:

I know the default extension regex does not allow open
curly brackets ('{'). I assume this is a security
feature.

What about filenames? I know they're legal in both
unix and windoze, but do they pose a security risk?


Windows lets you put a classid (hexadecimal string identifying the file type) in curly brackets and use that as a file extension. At least one virus has used this technique to hide its extension.

See http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/safe.html, item 8, for more details.

Josh Kelley
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