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foreign computers in network view
Dear All
I have stumbled on a strange issue on my home pc. The short story is I can see other computers in my network view, which is not suppose to be there.
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It looks like this (on imageshack)
Only one of these pc's is mine.
Before you jump to conclusions, i want to share what I did so far (i'm an IT professional/coder and has been so for 15 years)
System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
1. MS security essentials is running - nothing comes up.
2. I cant ping these other pc's
3. nslookup cant resolve them
4. Clicking them produces an error (The network path was not found)
5. Windows Firewall is on
6. I tried Sysinternals tcpview - nothing suspicious going on - no connections to the names.
7. Only mac adresses i know is connected to my router, I cant see any of these "pc-ghosts" in attached devices.
8. Wireless security is "on"
9. I have as far as I know never been connected to these computers.
10. Tried purging arp cahce
11. Tried nbtstat -R
12. Tried changing home network name.
Any ideas how to find out what is going on?
Where does explorer get this information from to display a network icon?
Googling this "phenomenon" show many people have had/are having this experience, but in no forums I have seen a solution.
All the best
Bike/Skeeto