"Ghost" shared drive?

Today I noticed a file called .DS_Store in one of my folders. Later, I noticed a copy of it in every folder in which I looked. After that, 1-2 of what I am calling "ghost drives" showed up on my desktop, named "home" and "net". They are grey, so when I right click them, I cannot "eject" them. When I put them in the trash, they reappeared. I scanned them for threats using Symantec, but there seems to be nothing in them.
Does anybody have any idea what is happening here? I've never seen this before.

All of those files and "drives" (actually folders) are normal, and they exist on every Mac because they are required, but the thing is that they are normally kept invisible, hidden from typical users. However, it is possible for programmers and power users to reveal them. Have you done anything to reveal hidden files, like running new utilities you might not be familar with?
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