Whenever i do a search, the first thing to pop up are files in my share folder that meet that criteria. Is this normal?

If not, how do i stop it?

This is a very rare occurrence for a few people only. I'm not sure why it happens.

Also, do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface?

Yep, the brick wall is there. Searching still works with it up, but i tried some of the instructions on turning off the Firewall, but i probably missed something, to see if that fixes my "problem". As i said, searching still works, it's just a bit of a pain.

Any thoughts, thanks.

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