Weird thing showing up in Shared menu in finder

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*** is that? Why does it keep showing up? How do I get rid of it?

That symbol of for a machine that is sharing via SMB the windows protocol. It can be a Mac, NAS, or Windows Machine.
You can find the attache devices and their IP addresses from your router.
Routers are often accessed via the IP address of their gateway. Often 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1. The looked for Attached devices tab/option.
It is also there that you can restrict devices that are allowed to attach by their MAC addresses. These are also displayed in he router menus for attached devices.
Steve

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