Trust in Automatic program control

First - This has been a great forum, my thanks all.

 

Now I have been a NIS and NWS user since 2003, my question is "is it best to let the automatic control take care of the firewall rules"

 

I am of moderate computing knowing and sometimes get "concerned" over rules that NIS configures automatically. Some examples are the spooler "spoolers" also windows explorer (not IE). I have been finding bits and pieces on the forum and seem to have come to the conclusion that a moderate surfer should leave the rules up to NIS. What are some thoughts?

 

Scans are clean, I would prefer not going with the alerts related to turning off auto control.

 

NIS09

NWS12

Win XP

Non gamer

utility, internet purchase, banking

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