I believe my computer may have a virus. Can someone help?

Lately ive been worried that my MacBook pro has a virus. Today i went to "Finder" and saw that i had shared files going--ive never shared any files. The location says "Neighborhood". Also, i went to my activity monitor and saw that there was a file called "disnoted" runnnig and it was by the user "damian". My name is not Damian and i have no idea who it could be. It wont let me stop the process either. Ive tried many times and it hasnt worked. I also see an "activitymonitord" is running from "root" what is that? Any help on this would be great. Im quite worried about the security of my computer now. Please tell me what this means and if it is a virus, how i can remove it. Ive suplied pictures aswell. Thank you.

Corbyy wrote:
i went to my activity monitor and saw that there was a file called "disnoted" runnnig and it was by the user "damian".
It's daemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computing%29
disnoted
DISTNOTED(8)              BSD System Manager's Manual             DISTNOTED(8)
NAME
     distnoted -- distributed notification server
SYNOPSIS
     distnoted
DESCRIPTION
     distnoted provides distributed notification services.
     There are no configuration options to distnoted. Users should not run distnoted manually.
OS X                         July 1, 2005                         OS X
I also see an "activitymonitord" is running from "root" what is that?
Activity Monitor, it has a root process obvious to watch everything going on.
Please tell me what this means and if it is a virus,
No virus, just turn off Sharing and Bluetooth in your System Preferences > Sharing & Bluetooth
Looks like someone in the "Neightborhood" set up a network thats all.

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