Sharing in Finder

I installed Leopard, everything seems to be working fine. However a very strange thing has happened, it appears that I've picked up a shared computer labelled 'Thomson'. Not only that, Mail has been acting up, as I have received an e-mail from 'Delta' confirming a flight that I will certainly not be making in November, by two names who I do not know! Is this a scam? have I been hacked? is Leopard prone to bugs...never had this problem before now!!

...or BT Home Hub
In the UK, the mysterious "thomson" share comes from the BT Home Hub.
Although not advertised (and I believe, not supported) the BT Home Hub runs an SMB sharing service which shares out one of its USB ports under the name thomson (name of the supplier of the Home Hub to BT). It is technically possible to plug an external drive into this USB slot and share the drive across your network. BUT don't bother trying. I did once - loads of issues, loads of caveats and the end result was painfully slow access to the shared drive. Plus, BT could just remove/change it one day...
No idea about the mails - probably spam
C.

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