Weird "Shared" Server On My Private Network

How did this show up on my network? It's a private network, and I'm the only one that uses the network that would know how to create a server, and nobody I know would name it "truestoneimage". Any ideas? How do I get rid of it so it doesn't appear in Finder? Why is it showing up at all?

 

Is your wifi secure? All I can think of is that some one is on your network.

 

Yeah, it's secure. Could a virus that someone else got have created the server in an attempt to spread itself? How can I delete it? By the way, as you can see in the picture, I can't connect or access it at all.

 

no VMware running an appliance? or parallels machine set up or something? Virtual Box? Its hard to tell what it could be without knowing more about your machines. Usually when someone has an unknown machine show up, its from one of their virtual machines set up that they didn't know looked like its own computer on the network.

 

Nope, it's not any of that. Is there any way that I can just stop it from appearing in Finder? It's a little annoying.

 

the name of it is just a bit... odd... check your router on your network. You should be able to see the machine, its assigned IP, and MAC address. You can also set to block it from the router (on most routers)... then see if something you have on the network stops working.

its just a shared computer, nothing to do with a server.

 

From the icon you can tell that it must be a windows machine. Does your router have a usb drive sharing ability? And is there a usb drive or something similar plugged in there?
One sure way to get rid of it would be to reset your router and create a fresh new network.
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I have a similar "weird" share. I have a theory for you. Did you log into another network recently that could have had that shared server as a member? I was on a wifi network with a couple of Dell Latitude machines earlier today and have a share called "latitude." My wifi has a hidden SSID, restricted Mac Address table and is password protected. No other machines show up in my router's admin pages. I'm thinking either my theory is correct or some hacker is so good I probably can't stop them anyway...

If you resolved this otherwise I'm curious. Thanks.

 

hidden SSID doesn't do anything... people can still find it pretty easy... MAC addresses are super easy to spoof, "password" can be easier or harder (but not impossible) to break depending on what your using for it.... all your security features will slow down someone that wants to get in, it wont prevent it.. unless they are just lazy and move on elsewhere.

 

If you use WPA/WPA2 with a semi-decent password it is nearly impossible to break. If you brute force a home router you would probably crash it from the password attempts before you actually get the password.

 

I get random "shared" computers all the time. I mainly find that there is a file-sharing network set up on a router/wireless network, and the computers seem to find it on their own. I'd check the router settings and find out if you can disable file sharing on your network.