Good day Kyle,
Thanks for the inquiry. We do advise for you to stop the SmarterMail service [Mailservice.exe] and then possible clear out the mail spool if there are unwanted emails being sent out. We do not recommend stopping the SMTP service or other services within the interface. If you are treating this as a compromised account and editing the password then you may want to also consider setting up security events within the SmarterMail application or enabling Throttling. Please keep in mind that you need the Enterprise edition to use this feature.
Thanks.