sorry, what i meant to say was protector stops the submission of the download when the file with multiple dots is uploaded.

3.01 stopped the upload until i modified the uploader class to change dots to underscores.

but when i upgraded to 3.13, protector stops the upload, also have a report that 3.04 prevents the upload too. I don't know why 3.01 worked after modifiying uploader class but later versions don't.

what do i define 'PROTECTOR_SKIP_FILESCHECKER' with? I am a little confused by your wording.

do i define('PROTECTOR_SKIP_FILESCHECKER', true); or define('PROTECTOR_SKIP_FILESCHECKER', 'wfdownloads');

the uploaded files are all given unique filenames on upload & can be stored outside the webroot.