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I had SPA installed on my PC which prevents me from viewing other PC's in my workgroup :-(

It won't allow me to disable it, and, when I try to uninstall it, it insists to have a password to do so.

I tried the following method to stop running SPA during startup:

(1) Start "Local Security Settings" from Start -> Run -> secpol.msc

(2) Create an entry in "Software Restriction Policy" if on one exists

(3) in "Additional Rules", right click and "New Path Rule...", then added "C:\Program Files\Symantec\SPA"

Now, if you restart your PC, SPA will not start.

Sometimes the question is not about "how" but "why." I had some trouble accessing Fidelity's website for a while and my browser always complains that the server cannot be found. By flushing the local windows DNS cache, I was able to resolve this issue. So here is the answer:

Start -> Run ... -> ipconfig /flushdns (for Vista, I haven't tried yet ;-)