Strange accout called other on my mac book

After logging in the other day I noticed a account called other
the account wanted a username and password which i didnt know
I went the the account section in system pref. but the account "other account" was not
my question is were did this come from? and how can I get rid of it??

"Other" is one name used by the OS for the root account. You want to disable it and that should be possible through "Directory Utilility">>Authenticate>>Edit>>Enable>>Disable Root user.
Another way is to boot from the install disk and select 'Re set passwords" , then re set root pw to give you a known root PW. You can disable root by entering command dsenable root at a single user boot after also mounting the drive, then inventing a root PW. Thing is root should be disabled after a known PW set.
There are cases where 'Other" persists that require other actions.

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