Blinking Dialog box?

Every so often a little accept/deny box pops up but it goes away so fast that i cant read a single word it says and its always at random times so i have no idea what it is asking me to do. I was wondering if there was a way to look at what it wants me to accept or deny so i can stop it from blinking on and off the screen randomly. or would it be a setting that i need to change? This is all the information i have on it so im sorry if its abit vague

No, its usually when i first turn on my mac and then every few hours but sporadically so i cant get rid of it. and it looks like a system permissions box from the tiny glimpse i can actually see.

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