What are ways to prevent files with the Right-to-Left Override (RLO) Unicode character in their filenames (malware spoofing method) from being run?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/408792/w...

Question links:
[Summary of computer virus/unauthorized computer access incident report for October 2011]: https://web.archive.org/web/201606081041...
[Bidirectional text]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectio...
[RLO character test webpage]: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode...

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