diff --git a/patterns_re.txt b/patterns_re.txt
index f0b53f6..6700d6e 100644
--- a/patterns_re.txt
+++ b/patterns_re.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+#PHP Regular Expressions
+#All comment lines must have '#' as the first character of the line. 
+#More critical rules should be put higher in the list as only the first pattern matched is reported to the user.
+
 eval\/\*[a-z0-9]+\*\/
 eval\([a-z0-9]{4,}\(\$[a-z0-9]{4,}, \$[0-9a-z]{4,}\)\);
 (chr\(\d+\)\.){4,}
@@ -15,4 +19,8 @@ if\s*\(\s*mail\s*\(\s*\$mails\[\$i\]\s*,\s*\$tema\s*,\s*base64_encode\s*\(\s*\$t
 fwrite\s*\(\s*\$fh\s*,\s*stripslashes\s*\(\s*@*\$_(GET|POST|SERVER|COOKIE|REQUEST)\[
 echo\s+file_get_contents\s*\(\s*base64_url_decode\s*\(\s*@*\$_(GET|POST|SERVER|COOKIE|REQUEST)
 chr\s*\(\s*101\s*\)\s*\.\s*chr\s*\(\s*118\s*\)\s*\.\s*chr\s*\(\s*97\s*\)\s*\.\s*chr\s*\(\s*108\s*\)
-(\$OOO_O_000_\{\d+\}.){3,}
\ No newline at end of file
+(\$OOO_O_000_\{\d+\}.){3,}
+
+#Detects generic base64 strings longer than 260 characters enclosed in quotes ending with 0-3 '=' chars.
+#260 was a threshold chosen because strings of 256 characters are common enough.  Might increase later to reduce false positives.
+['"][A-Za-z0-9+\/]{260,}={0,3}['"]