Strange name under my shared Network connections!

Hello all,
today I encountered a very strange thing on my iMac running Leopard.
Under the shared section in my sidebar of my harddrive window I see a computer screen icon with the name "-7ea1". Please see a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superfrunny/3419224364
When I right click and view info - it says that this is a PC-Server and has an icon from an old PC Monitor with a Bluescreen. See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superfrunny/3419239210
I first thought it is a something with Paralells that I use but it is not. I am not able to unmount it or to connect to it. Sometimes this computer appears when I start Mail but not all the time. Sometimes it disapears after some minutes. This is visible since 1 or 2 days and my Leopard install is one week old.
I have no other computer in my network and no wi-fi is active or any other device that could show up here.
Anybody else saw that or has an idea what this could be? I am a bit scared
Thanks for any hint!

Because for better or worse the Finder doesn't update the list of machines in real time.
For example, if you connect to a network with shared PCs those PCs will remain listed in the sidebar even after you've disconnected and have connected to another network.
Bug? Feature?
I couldn't tell you, but it is a bit annoying at times, and I couldn't find a way to get rid of the "phantom" hosts other than by rebooting.

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