Strange border around selected icons/windows

My son, who has a bad habit of downloading all sorts of, um, stuff from the internet, has a strange thing going on. In his account only, whatever window or icon he clicks on gets an annoying black border around it.
I can't find anything in system prefs that looks like it would address this. Can I just trash the system prefs file from his account library, or is there another possible fix for this?
Thanks,
Steve

That's it! Thanks so much!
He didn't intentionally turn this on, though. Is there some keyboard shortcut or something he may have done by accident?
Steve

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