foreign network question

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I checked my mapped LAN network drives and I can see a drive
\\leader.usauniversity.edu drive with students web contents and work, I can
browse and see every content. I have WinXP firewall and Spyware Beta. I
have no idea of how this happened and I don't want it mapped on my LAN. How
can I remove it? Could anyone be using it to hack my LAN? Why is it happening?

Thanks

Ted
 
Ted Wilson said:
I checked my mapped LAN network drives and I can see a drive
\\leader.usauniversity.edu drive with students web contents and work, I
can
browse and see every content. I have WinXP firewall and Spyware Beta. I
have no idea of how this happened and I don't want it mapped on my LAN.
How
can I remove it? Could anyone be using it to hack my LAN? Why is it
happening?

Thanks

Ted
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Who else has used your computer recently?

If you run

net use

in a command line, what do you see?
 
Net Use says no entries in list. Could some outthere be browsing my LAN? How
can I stop this?

Ted
 
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Ted Wilson said:
Net Use says no entries in list. Could some outthere be browsing my
LAN? How can I stop this?
Click to expand...

Could there be? Sure, I guess anything's possible. Unlikely, though.
Who else has used your computer recently?

Use good passwords on all your accounts
Use a good password on the built-in administrator account
Keep your AV up to date
Consider getting a hardware firewall/gateway appliance to stick between your
computer & the Internet, even if you also use the XP firewall
Do regular backups
If you use wireless, use encryption (WPA)
Etc.
 
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