Secured and Unsecured connection question

I was dealing with a customer when she asked me a question about her wrt54g wireless router. She said that when she goes into view available wireless networks it shows one network, Secured. And the same network name, unsecured. They are both her name (she has an obscure name so i doubt anyone in the area named their network the same).
My question is, how do you disable the unsecured network? I would assume it's a profile in the router (windows only has her secured network listed in the profiles).

The router can only generate one wireless network, so the "extra network" is not coming from the router.
On some systems, the wireless adapter software will show two entries for your own wireless network if "SSID Broadcast" is set to "disabled". One entry is the wireless network without its SSID, and it will be shown correctly as either being encrypted or unencrypted. The second entry is the same wireless network with its SSID, and it too will be shown correctly as either being encrypted or unencrypted. This is not exactly what you described, but may be the cause for the confusion.
Another possibility is that the unencrypted network is somehow poping up from her list of "preferred networks", and that it got into that list before she encrypted the network. In this case, either "Refresh" the list of available networks, or delete the listing for the unencrypted network from the list of "preferred networks".
Another possibility is this: Someone else in her household has their wireless card set to "Ad-hoc" mode, and it is generating the unencrypted network. (Yes, this does happen! )
Another possibility is this: Someone in the neighborhood has copied her SSID. In this case, change the SSID, disable SSID broadcast, and encrypt the network with a strong password.
If it is none of the above, then download and install the latest driver for the wireless card.
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