diff --git a/archivebox/archive_methods.py b/archivebox/archive_methods.py
index 1ff03027..6fd08d0e 100644
--- a/archivebox/archive_methods.py
+++ b/archivebox/archive_methods.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from config import (
     OUTPUT_DIR,
     GIT_DOMAINS,
     GIT_SHA,
+    RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES,
     CURL_USER_AGENT,
     WGET_USER_AGENT,
     CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY,
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ def fetch_wget(link_dir, link, timeout=TIMEOUT):
         '--span-hosts',
         '--no-parent',
         '-e', 'robots=off',
-        '--restrict-file-names=nocontrol',
+        *(('--restrict-file-names={}'.format(RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES),) if RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES else ()),
         '--timeout={}'.format(timeout),
         *(('--compression=auto',) if WGET_AUTO_COMPRESSION else ()),
         *(() if FETCH_WARC else ('--timestamping',)),
diff --git a/archivebox/config.py b/archivebox/config.py
index 18fe204c..f4907a30 100644
--- a/archivebox/config.py
+++ b/archivebox/config.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG = os.getenv('SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG', 'True'
 
 CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY =     os.getenv('CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY',     'True'             ).lower() == 'true'
 RESOLUTION =             os.getenv('RESOLUTION',             '1440,2000'        )
+RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES =    os.getenv('RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES',    'windows'        )
 GIT_DOMAINS =            os.getenv('GIT_DOMAINS',            'github.com,bitbucket.org,gitlab.com').split(',')
 CURL_USER_AGENT =        os.getenv('CURL_USER_AGENT',        'ArchiveBox/{GIT_SHA} (+https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/)')
 WGET_USER_AGENT =        os.getenv('WGET_USER_AGENT',        'ArchiveBox/{GIT_SHA} (+https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/) wget/{WGET_VERSION}')
diff --git a/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default b/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
index 9ceeff17..a48ee8e2 100644
--- a/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
+++ b/etc/ArchiveBox.conf.default
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 
 #CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY=True
 #FETCH_WGET_REQUISITES=True
+#RESTRICT_FILE_NAMES="windows"
 #RESOLUTION="1440,900"
 #CURL_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36"
 #WGET_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36"