Strange PC servers showing up in sidebar

Hello,
For some reason, I'm getting these strange PC servers showing up in the sidebar of Finder.
One of the PC servers has a really long name: mac001ec212402a, and one of them has the same name as the home folder of another Mac on my network. I'm sure that no one but our own household is connected to our network (which is password protected) and we own no PCs.
Additional Info: We have an Airport Extreme base station (802.11n) with 2 Airport Extremes (1 802.11n and 1 802.11g) and a Time Capsule extending that network.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks

Amal,
Are any of your Macs running Windows in a virtual machine? This is one way a PC would show up in "Shared." Also, any Mac with SMB sharing enabled would do the same. Of course, SMB services running on any network devices (Airport Express, Time Capsule, etc.) will also show up as a PC.
In short, it doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about.
Scott

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