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A pop up keeps appearing and disappearing

I keep seeing a Pop Up that pops up and disappears again for a split second on my screen.

It's so fast, I can't tell what it is, but it looks like a warning dialog box.

It pops up at random times. It doesn't matter what windows or finders I have open.

Sometimes it appears when I'm surfing youtube or ebay, others when I'm watching movies or streaming videos online....

The problem is, It disappears before I get the chance to see what it is or deal with it. (It's gone before I can even screen shot it).

It's been happening for a few weeks now and even after updating, it's still there.... I get the feeling it's slowing down my system some what too...

Any ideas what it may be or how I can go about finding out? and potentially removing it?

Thanks guys and girls.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Aug 11, 2013 8:43 PM

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macjack

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Aug 13, 2013 7:09 PM in response to shardy00x

latest is Java 7_25.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

shardy00x Author

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Aug 13, 2013 7:17 PM in response to macjack

Excellent. Thanks for the link.

Well I've just installed it. It's also now appearing in the System Preferences (still not in Apps or Util).

I guess I will just have to wait and see if I spot it again now.

It may have solved it with new default settings installed. (fingers crossed).

macjack

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Aug 13, 2013 7:19 PM in response to shardy00x

No, that's correct. The only place Java 7 resides is in System Preferences.

shardy00x Author

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Aug 13, 2013 7:24 PM in response to macjack

Ok. Thank you.

shardy00x Author

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Aug 13, 2013 7:29 PM in response to macjack

It just did it again... I'm going to have to live with it

macjack

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Aug 13, 2013 7:45 PM in response to shardy00x

That's what I was afraid of... it's coming from some piece of Java 6 that was not uninstalled.

The only way I know of to uninstall it completely would be to re-install Java 6 then use the uninstaller.

Or..."live with it".

shardy00x Author

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Aug 13, 2013 7:51 PM in response to macjack

I thought about reinstalling Java 6.

I followed these instructions: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_uninstall_java.xml

to delete/uninstall Java 7 (I used the Terminal option) and then used the link at the bottom to restore to Apple Java 6 but nothing new seems to be available (and obviously no preferences) so used the command to disable it.

I will have to try and find Java 6 installs on google.

macjack

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Aug 13, 2013 7:58 PM in response to shardy00x

Hope this helps

http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml

shardy00x Author

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Aug 13, 2013 8:06 PM in response to macjack

Ok, I'll check it out tomorrow. It's 4:00am here now. I can't look at this screen any longer.
Thanks again for your help. I appreciate it.

A pop up keeps appearing and disappearing