I disabled the firewall on this computer because its on 56k and its just a pain in my butt to try and unblock ports when I don't think anyone is going to try and hack into a 56k machine... just wouldn't be practicle. anywho after i disabled the windows firewall i get a warning everytime i start windows and a little red shield on my task bar which annoys the living hell out of me. Does anyone know how to get rid of this thing without enabling the firewall again?