diff --git a/etc/checksum/md5sum.md5 b/etc/checksum/md5sum.md5
index 648873b..e9f56db 100644
--- a/etc/checksum/md5sum.md5
+++ b/etc/checksum/md5sum.md5
@@ -61,23 +61,23 @@ bbd8b4c6100070d420d48dc7dfc297eb  ./lib/firewall/webknight.py
 81a29a14d72980a306fbaec0dc772048  ./lib/firewall/fortigate.py
 6ea65a0160c21e144e92334acc2e3667  ./lib/firewall/anquanbao.py
 22a0ad8f2fa1a16b651cb5ae37ca9b0d  ./lib/firewall/generic.py
-cf236a16c7869282f55dd4c5ad6347a5  ./lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
+963e24d4b8a0fb94464389ddb60cc65f  ./lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
 7183dbd7106ecb436176cebcca4e499f  ./lib/attacks/clickjacking_scan/__init__.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./lib/attacks/__init__.py
 4c644b0e3a62b6c1528d34a04837aa35  ./lib/attacks/sqlmap_scan/__init__.py
 5e5bb575014ebe613db6bf671d008cf8  ./lib/attacks/sqlmap_scan/sqlmap_opts.py
 7bc7a6f3e85651aab3588f087563eded  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/__init__.py
-d2846e039fefee741db24dd64f7bd50e  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
+8ec72bb33df998e32b925e3060d9d17a  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
 2d7686f1b9b93c3989bc5f279a1a064a  ./lib/attacks/admin_panel_finder/__init__.py
-b5cd5e913cc62112776153bdf0f60fa4  ./lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
+cc5e5838893eba60cf4bd33d38007e32  ./lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
 e9915cc0bc3de60aaf2accfaea77d059  ./lib/attacks/nmap_scan/__init__.py
 216999fa0e84866d5c1d96d5676034e4  ./lib/attacks/nmap_scan/nmap_opts.py
-3252422e2934d26987ab9b0eb00c5f9d  ./lib/header_check/__init__.py
+e2af52e2cb4d2f192c4678b7439366b2  ./lib/header_check/__init__.py
 39221756c132732dbdc2b14772dcab11  ./lib/core/common.py
 4433353fb5c55578391d8b4006191ee8  ./lib/core/errors.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./lib/core/__init__.py
-3cef89f6f302418b323ba257b9ccc25c  ./lib/core/settings.py
-d3c1663ff908e10dfb2425bf84d80759  ./lib/core/decorators.py
+c10aa86b519d43bd142de46453527f51  ./lib/core/settings.py
+801a4f7ac892b74676c649bd4844ccdb  ./lib/core/decorators.py
 9a02e5b913d210350545ac26510a63c9  ./var/search/__init__.py
 0545ee54ade186681b25d157fb32f350  ./var/search/selenium_search.py
 8f8a7e791f91f0ef3544f2ed8364ab56  ./var/search/pgp_search.py
diff --git a/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py b/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
index 98b7fb0..6f6506d 100644
--- a/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ def check_files_for_information(found_url, data_to_search):
         time.sleep(3)
         data = requests.get(found_url)
     for data_regex in data_regex_schema:
+        lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
+            "running with regex '{}'...".format(data_regex.pattern), level=25
+        ))
         if data_regex.search(data.content) is not None:
             lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
                 "found a match with given specifics, saving full Gist to log file...", level=25
diff --git a/lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py b/lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
index 774e5c9..d3df347 100644
--- a/lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
+++ b/lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ def whois_lookup_main(domain, **kwargs):
             time.sleep(timeout)
         try:
             raw_information = gather_raw_whois_info(domain)
-        except Exception as e:
-            lib.core.settings.logger.exception(str(e))
+        except Exception:
             lib.core.settings.logger.error(lib.core.settings.set_color(
                 "unable to produce information from WhoIs lookup...", level=40
             ))
diff --git a/lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py b/lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
index 241664a..24ca387 100644
--- a/lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
@@ -168,8 +168,13 @@ def main_xss(start_url, proxy=None, agent=None, **kwargs):
         with open(filename) as urls:
             for i, url in enumerate(urls.readlines(), start=1):
                 url = url.strip()
-                result = scan_xss(url, proxy=proxy, agent=agent)
                 payload = find_xss_script(url)
+                try:
+                    result = scan_xss(url, proxy=proxy, agent=agent)
+                except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
+                    lib.core.settings.logger.error(lib.core.settings.set_color(
+                        "payload '{}' caused a connection error, assuming no good and continuing...".format(payload), level=40
+                    ))
                 if verbose:
                     lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
                         "trying payload '{}'...".format(payload)
diff --git a/lib/core/decorators.py b/lib/core/decorators.py
index cf9886f..49a6810 100644
--- a/lib/core/decorators.py
+++ b/lib/core/decorators.py
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ def cache(func):
     @wraps(func)
     def func_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
         if args in __cache:
-            lib.core.settings.logger.warning(lib.core.settings.set_color(
-                "cached detection has shown that the target URL WAF/IPS/IDS is '{}'...".format(
-                    __cache[args]
-                ), level=35
-            ))
             return __cache[args]
         else:
             __to_cache = func(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index ee9282d..958a927 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ CLONE = "https://github.com/ekultek/zeus-scanner.git"
 ISSUE_LINK = "https://github.com/ekultek/zeus-scanner/issues"
 
 # current version <major.minor.commit.patch ID>
-VERSION = "1.3.9.{}".format(PATCH_ID)
+VERSION = "1.3.10.{}".format(PATCH_ID)
 
 # colors to output depending on the version
 VERSION_TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 92, "other": 30}
@@ -337,14 +337,16 @@ DBMS_ERRORS = {
 
 
 # this has to be the first function so that I can use it in the logger settings below
-def create_log_name(log_path="{}/log", filename="zeus-log-{}.log", matcher="zeus-log"):
+def create_log_name(log_path="{}/log", filename="zeus-log-{}.log", matcher="zeus"):
     """
     create the current log file name by figuring out how many files are there
     """
     if not os.path.exists(log_path.format(os.getcwd())):
         os.mkdir(log_path.format(os.getcwd()))
-    find_file_amount = len([f for f in os.listdir(log_path.format(os.getcwd())) if matcher in f])
-    full_log_path = "{}/{}".format(log_path.format(os.getcwd()), filename.format(find_file_amount + 1))
+    find_file_amount = len(
+        [f for f in os.listdir(log_path.format(os.getcwd())) if matcher in f and not os.path.isdir(f)]
+    ) + 1
+    full_log_path = "{}/{}".format(log_path.format(os.getcwd()), filename.format(find_file_amount))
     return full_log_path
 
 
diff --git a/lib/header_check/__init__.py b/lib/header_check/__init__.py
index 543c0df..0b971e6 100644
--- a/lib/header_check/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/header_check/__init__.py
@@ -105,10 +105,12 @@ def detect_protection(url, **kwargs):
                 except (Exception, IndexError):
                     logger.warning(set_color(
                         "multiple firewalls identified ({}), displaying most likely...".format(
-                            ", ".join(retval)
+                            ", ".join([item.split("(")[0] for item in retval])
                         ), level=30
                     ))
                     del retval[retval.index(retval[1])]
+                    if len(retval) >= 2:
+                        del retval[retval.index(retval[1])]
             if retval[0] == "Generic (Unknown)":
                 logger.warning(set_color(
                     "discovered firewall is unknown to Zeus, saving fingerprint to file. "
@@ -159,7 +161,7 @@ def load_headers(url, **kwargs):
     proxy = kwargs.get("proxy", None)
     xforward = kwargs.get("xforward", False)
 
-    literal_match = re.compile(r"\\(\X(\d+)?\w+)?", re.I)
+    # literal_match = re.compile(r"\\(\X(\d+)?\w+)?", re.I)
 
     if proxy is not None:
         proxy = proxy_string_to_dict(proxy)
@@ -203,13 +205,15 @@ def load_headers(url, **kwargs):
             retval[header] = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", u"{}".format(http_headers[header])).encode("ascii", errors="ignore")
         # just to be safe, we're going to put all the possible Unicode errors into a tuple
         except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, UnicodeError, UnicodeTranslateError, UnicodeWarning):
-            # if there are, we're going to append them to a `do_not_use` list
+            # if there are any errors, we're going to append them to a `do_not_use` list
             do_not_use.append(header)
+    # clear the dict so we can re-add to it
     retval.clear()
     for head in http_headers:
         # if the header is in the list, we skip it
         if head not in do_not_use:
             retval[head] = http_headers[head]
+    # return a dict of safe unicodeless HTTP headers
     return retval