Authenticate/Cancel Notification Box Pops up and then QUICKLY disappears automatic.

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Once every hour or two a diag box pops up and then quickly disappears. It happens so fast I cannot do anything with it or even read what it says. I'm running Lion.

It appears to be the box that tells you that you need to authenticate to perform a certain action (has a yellow exclamation triangle). It's not the box that prompts for an Admin username/password. It gives you two options: "authenticate" & "cancel." On this particular mac I use a standard login/user & have a separate login dedicated to being the Administrator. When I do need to authenticate something I type in the Admin name & password. I'm not sure if the Admin/Username us submitted automatically after the first disappears. I have not seen the Authenticate box (that prompts for a password) appear afterwards.

Any idea what could be causing this? It's very annoying & I'm worried it could be some form of malware

I download a lot of Apps & stuff but am very cautious about what I install or allow to authenticate. I stay away from torrents (with an exception or two).

I'd like to figure out & fix what's causing this ASAP. It takes me out of fullscreen Netflix & is just so annoying.

any ideas?

[Note: I re-installed os x in July. I'm not sure when this started; It's been happening for awhile.
 
Can you look in the System Preferences, under User Accounts, under your user account, in "Login Items" and see if one of your login items could be a suspect?
 
Ahhhh :mad: It just happened as I clicked reply.

ElDiabloConCaca said:
Can you look in the System Preferences, under User Accounts, under your user account, in "Login Items" and see if one of your login items could be a suspect?
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Thanks for the good suggestion; I hadn't thought of that. I just checked my Login items: The few apps I have in there were all up to date but iTunesHelper did have a a yellow exclamation next to it. I removed it but since it just happened I guess it wasn't the problem.
 
Your popup may not be reporting out-of-date software. It's strange that it disappears so quickly. Are the other Login Items what you expect to see there?

If that's some popup from your system, then you might find some relevant info in your Console, in the system.log
That will be listed by time and date, so you can look at the approximate time of the incident for any entries that might explain what causes that popup.
 
DeltaMac said:
Your popup may not be reporting out-of-date software. It's strange that it disappears so quickly. Are the other Login Items what you expect to see there?
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Yes. There are six in all (not counting itunes helper that I removed).
  • GrowlHelperApp
  • MemorySweeperPro - Appstore App
  • ReadNow - Appstore App
  • Alfred - Appstore App
  • SophosUIServer
  • SymSecondaryLaunch (From Semantic/Norton apparently)


If that's some popup from your system, then you might find some relevant info in your Console, in the system.log That will be listed by time and date, so you can look at the approximate time of the incident for any entries that might explain what causes that popup.
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This is another good idea. I used to frequently check my logs but It's been awhile since I have and it didn't occur to me to do this.

Good thing I timestamped the last (known) incident with my post @ 6:01pm EST. I'm going to check the log for then & also right after it happens next.
 
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