Continual warning - network settings reset by another app

I noticed when going onto my network settings i was getting a continual message pop up warning of this but by clicking ok the message appeared to reload so continually trying to work in the network profile became impossible. There does not appear to be any application running that could do this . The mac is connected to the internet over a wifi connection though an airport express.
this message sonetimes used to arise when i was having internet connection problems and using the network connection wizard to fix might change the settings i have never seen anything else do it. I eventually was able t ostop the pop up only be managing to click on the lock preventing further change.
I am however concerned that maybe an external source had been able to access and control this preference pane. and that this might be a hostile rather than benign attack. I am running appavhe and rely on port forwarding from the airport express to control access which was hwo various apple technical notes explained how i should set this network up as the integrated firewall would be of little use given i am also running an internal network with 3 macs using wifi

It's not an outside attack. hpr3's help/link is great, just to add...
To stop the pop-up, Go to System Preferences: Security. Check the box next to "Require password to unlock each secure system preference." Then lock Security.
Try this cure for Security update...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730909&tstart=0

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