Prevent running DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS

Question

I have recevied an issue which is, frequent hit for following query in SQL Server. But this line of code not used in our application

DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS(N'"Demo"."dbo"."tblSettings"',"_WA_Sys_0000000C_125F7E8B") WITH HISTOGRAM_STEPS

I need to know
1. Why this line of code executed 

2. Can we stop this line of execution