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Nothing in Library>Recent Servers and nothing in Trash. Safari was last updated on Aug. 3. Something interesting, though. When I went to "Get Info" for Safari, it was allowing access for three things: System (read and write), Everyone (read only) and Wheel (read only). This last one is...

Connected servers was already unchecked. Unchecking shared items from the sidebar will make them disappear in the main Finder view, but it doesn't remove it from Network (when it's there, that is, which it isn't right now). I do use Google Reader in Firefox, but I don't have an app that...

Just to give an example of what I'm talking about, here's a screenshot of one that showed up recently: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ejx1df&s=4 One of my roommates has a Mac with leopard, and his doesn't show it when connected to the same router.

All sharing services are unchecked, remote management is turned off and I am not authorizing any users. The recent servers file shows no items. Maybe this is all normal and I'm just noticing, but I know I never saw these things until I switched ISPs and got a new router. I want to make sure...

OK, thought this was over, but getting weirder. This morning I woke up and it was recognizing a different shared neighborhood: he.wikipedia.org. This is the Hebrew Wikipedia site, apparently, which I have certainly never been to. Also, this only seems to happen when I'm connected to my home...

Thanks a bunch. I've opted out in both browsers. However, I'm still perplexed as to the original mystery: why was this showing up as a server in my network? Is that normal?

I've cleared all cookies in Safari and Firefox (mostly use the latter). Safari is actually set to never accept cookies, but Firefox accepts them from sites I visit and allows third-party cookies. For the record, I don't go to any shady websites. My browsing habits are fairly boring &#8211...

The weird shared network seems to come and go, and I can't even link it to anything I'm doing. It is titled as "b.scorecardresearch.com", which a search reveals is a web-tracking company. Presumably I have a tracking cookie, which isn't pleasant, but also not abnormal. But why is this showing up...

I'm having a problem that's really worrying me and I'm wondering if someone cal help. I opened finder recently and in the "Shared" column on the left, there was a network I didn't recognize. It has the name of a website on it that I've never been to. When I click "Get info," it doesn't tell me...