Bogus email accounts added in Mail Application

I just noticed that one of our client machines has an email account added to it that was not added by the user or IT admin. The account is grayed out and cannot be deleted in the preferences. In fact, everytime I try to delete it creates a duplicate. I appears to be sending some kind of emails out through this client and consuming a lot of memory. It appears that there maybe a virus or the client may have been hacked? Is anyone else having this experience or have any suggestions as to how to remove this account for good?

some suggestions here : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2227529&tstart=0

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