How to remove an unauthorized computer/user from my wired broadband connection

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Today Google asked me for a captcha before allowing me access to the search results and I looked for possible causes of this and found out someone might be using my computer and true enough I went to my network and there was a " Jean-Pc " beside my own computer.

How do I remove him and prevent any connection sharing from now on?

Is there an easy fix not involving the command prompt ( that can do other damage to my computer) ?

 
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m707

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I don't have a router or a modem, my Ethernet cable goes directly in my PC.
All the sharing options are off, it's a home/private network and I don't belong to a homegroup. So by that logic I shouldn't be seeing anyone else's computer on my home/private network.

Would it help if I deleted my connection, uninstalled my networking driver then reinstalled it and made the connection again with a new password ?

I really don't want to have to reinstall windows + all the other programs and start from scratch.

 
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m707

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In the cable box of my apartment building. In the past some lunatics actually broke it and cut the wires and the ISP was convinced to come after 3 calls and a lot of error verification.

Right now I don't see the other computer, but in Network and Sharing Center in the link between my computer and the Internet there are multiple networks - my network that has internet access and an unidentified public network with no internet access.

I've tried to get rid of the phantom connection through a fix involving reliable multicast protocol that I found on youtube and worked for some, but it didn't work for me.
I'm still looking for something that will work for me and hope I won't see another computer on my network.

 
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