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Funny I said WIN32 programmers. I don't know why programmers are bad on windows, perhaps the lack of security from the beginning made them that way.

Actually your spot on. Microsoft f--- themselves over with the Win9x series. Win9x bred a legion on Windows programmers who were never taught to think about security (because it didn't exist) when writing Windows programs. When Microsoft started moving to NT/2k/xp all of the same programmers who learned to program in Win9x migrated over and brought their bad coding habits with them.

Old habits die hard.

Obviously not, but if I wanted to automate the process I'd cron yum as root (not that it would be recommend for apache). Seriously are you trying to compare updating anti-virus definitions to maintaining a system?

Yes I am comparing the two. Anti Virus programs require access to *every* part of the OS. They wouldn't do much good otherwise. Allowing regular users to easily manipulate a program like anti-virus software can be a serious security problem. The problem I've seen with every version of Norton AV I've ever used it has no built in update scheduler. Just about every AV product on the planet had has this feature for years - but not Norton. You can schedule updates with norton in the manner I descibed, but it shouldn't be that difficult. Again - all of this is a Norton issue not a Windows issue. At work we've used McAfee for 4 years now. We configure it so that unless you're an administrator, you can't even look at it's configuration.

Funny I don't remember *nix automatically running items in a users home. Writing to a home directory and placing an item in the Startup Items folder are very different.

Logging into unix and using the console and logging into unix and loading up a graphical enviroment such as KDE and Gnome are also very different. When I boot to my FreeBSD partition and launch X/KDE under my normal user account, I can configure KDE to automatically load programs for me when I load it.

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