How do I get rid of Windows shares in Finder?

We're a little Mac group sharing an office with loads of PC users and a lot of them send out NETBIOS broadcasts which clutter up our Finder sidebars. Almost all of them seem to have file-shairng turned on...
Does anyone know if there's a way to reject incoming NETBIOS packets on a Leopard machine so that we only see our own OS X servers and not all their PCs?
I'd be really grateful if someone could offer a hint. We want nothing to do with that Windows stuff.
Rgds, /Peter

I have no windows computers on my network at the moment so cannot test this but the common ports for windows sharing are
137 UDP Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) - -
138 UDP NETBIOS Datagram Service
139 TCP Server Message Block (SMB)
445 TCP Microsoft SMB Domain
You could block these ports in your macs firewall but this may prevent you from connecting to windows sharepoints.
If your not familiar with configuring IPFW to configure the firewall then I would suggest you have look at Waterroof

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