The immediate crisis that led to Joel restricting the downloads to use freshclam was unexpected. 

I'm working on a tool as fast as I'm able to replace the Perl-wget script for those that need to host private mirrors. It will have built-in features to minimize the possibility for abuse. 

I'll share it with the list as soon as I'm able. 

Thanks for working on this.

In the meantime we're using FreshClam to get the CVDs and are copying those into the local webserver's DocumentRoot. Not ideal at all because of the lack of cdiffs, but it seems to work for now.

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Paul
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