diff --git a/filelist.go b/filelist.go
index ac767ed..b0b399b 100644
--- a/filelist.go
+++ b/filelist.go
@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"regexp"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/ryanuber/go-glob"
 )
 
 // fileList uses a map for patterns to ensure each pattern only
@@ -31,7 +30,9 @@ func newFileList(paths ...string) *fileList {
 	f := &fileList{
 		patterns: make(map[string]struct{}),
 	}
+	var replacer = strings.NewReplacer("*", ".*")
 	for _, p := range paths {
+		p = replacer.Replace(p)
 		f.patterns[p] = struct{}{}
 	}
 	return f
@@ -57,31 +58,27 @@ func (f *fileList) Set(path string) error {
 
 func (f fileList) Contains(path string) bool {
 	for p := range f.patterns {
-		if strings.Contains(p, glob.GLOB) {
-			if glob.Glob(p, path) {
-				if logger != nil {
-					logger.Printf("skipping: %s\n", path)
-				}
-				return true
+		// check if the path matches the regular expression pattern
+		r, err := regexp.Compile(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			if logger != nil {
+				logger.Printf("invalid pattern: %s\n", p)
 			}
-		} else {
-			// check if only a sub-folder of the path is excluded
-			if strings.Contains(path, p) {
-				if logger != nil {
-					logger.Printf("skipping: %s\n", path)
-				}
-				return true
+			continue
+		}
+		if r.MatchString(path) {
+			if logger != nil {
+				logger.Printf("skipping: %s\n", path)
 			}
-
+			return true
+		}
+		// check if only a sub-folder of the path is excluded
+		if strings.Contains(path, p) {
+			if logger != nil {
+				logger.Printf("skipping: %s\n", path)
+			}
+			return true
 		}
 	}
 	return false
 }
-
-/*
-func (f fileList) Dump() {
-	for k, _ := range f.paths {
-		println(k)
-	}
-}
-*/
diff --git a/filelist_test.go b/filelist_test.go
index eaa3cd6..a822c28 100644
--- a/filelist_test.go
+++ b/filelist_test.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ func Test_newFileList(t *testing.T) {
 			name: "have paths",
 			args: args{paths: []string{"*_test.go"}},
 			want: &fileList{patterns: map[string]struct{}{
-				"*_test.go": struct{}{},
+				".*_test.go": struct{}{},
 			}},
 		},
 	}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 1f8d774..fcc455f 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ func main() {
 	// Setup usage description
 	flag.Usage = usage
 
-	//  Exclude files
-	excluded := newFileList("*_test.go")
-	flag.Var(excluded, "skip", "File pattern to exclude from scan. Uses simple * globs and requires full or partial match")
+	//  Exclude test files and files starting with _ or .
+	excluded := newFileList("*_test.go", "(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go", "(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go")
+	flag.Var(excluded, "skip", "File pattern to exclude from scan. Uses simple * globs or a regexp and requires full or partial match")
 
 	incRules := ""
 	flag.StringVar(&incRules, "include", "", "Comma separated list of rules IDs to include. (see rule list)")
diff --git a/main_test.go b/main_test.go
index b47a4b5..f39af22 100644
--- a/main_test.go
+++ b/main_test.go
@@ -36,6 +36,38 @@ func Test_shouldInclude(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			want: false,
 		},
+		{
+			name: ".go file starting with _ are excluded",
+			args: args{
+				path:     "_thing.go",
+				excluded: newFileList("(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go"),
+			},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name: ".go file starting with _ in a path are excluded",
+			args: args{
+				path:     "/test/_thing.go",
+				excluded: newFileList("(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go"),
+			},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name: ".go file starting with . are excluded",
+			args: args{
+				path:     ".thing.go",
+				excluded: newFileList("(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go"),
+			},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name: ".go file starting with . in a path are excluded",
+			args: args{
+				path:     "/test/.thing.go",
+				excluded: newFileList("(^|.*[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.go"),
+			},
+			want: false,
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		if got := shouldInclude(tt.args.path, tt.args.excluded); got != tt.want {
diff --git a/vendor.conf b/vendor.conf
index 5f5b814..6c80cfb 100644
--- a/vendor.conf
+++ b/vendor.conf
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ github.com/GoAstScanner/gas
 # import
 github.com/GoASTScanner/gas	cc52ef5
 github.com/nbutton23/zxcvbn-go	a22cb81
-github.com/ryanuber/go-glob	v0.1