Yes - go to Security Center in your Control Panel. Click on Recommendations under the giant Firewall blob and check the box for “I have a firewall solution…” That should get rid of the shield for you.
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go to the security centre and hit “Change the way Security Centre alerts me” in the left hand column. then simply untick the things you don’t want to be told about.
the only gripe i have about SP2 is that i IE, which i have to use coz i regulary use a certian plugin that only works for it, now blocks active content such as auto refreshes, at one point it even blocked flash elements from loading!
Thanx Kirupa 
It won’t let me open the links that you guys posted, can some help?
Hmm - what won’t let you open the links that people posted? Do you mean SP2?
I installed SP2, before i did, everything was fine ( internet ) but now it doesn’t do some things, like open links that you guys posted ( internet explorer ).
Update
It was the stupid pop-up blocker,
More problems :
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Some websites won’t show up
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When i try to reply to a thread in this forum, not using the Quick Reply ( which i am using right now ), i try to type but it won’t let me.
Some websites don’t show up too…
It was the stupid pop-up blocker,
More problems :
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Some websites won’t show up
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When i try to reply to a thread in this forum, not using the Quick Reply ( which i am using right now ), i try to type but it won’t let me.
The Edit button is there so that you don’t reply multiple times to add-on to a previous message.
Go to Tools | Internet Options | Security --> Custom Level. Make sure that anything related to javascript/scripting/etc. is enabled.
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Thank you Kirupa, everything works now. 
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For me it always blocks flash, even files on my local computer that I am testing. I have made many changes to the security settings (enabled pretty much everything), but they are still blocked.
Any hints?
Are you sure that you have flash installed on it?
ya, after I unblock it it then loads fine. But the next time I start up IE once again it doesn’t load
Under Internet Options | Advanced, check to make sure that you have “Play Animations” and “Allow active content to run from My Computer” checked. That may help somewhat
