In Mountain Lion, I keep seeing a dialogue box flash on my screen very quickly--almost too fast to notice. I'm worried that it is spyware taking screen shots--help!

Has anyone else seen this? I have no idea what it's doing. It's interrupted fullscreen movie watching previously. When it happens, I have no idea what it's doing. I looked through my activity monitor to see what's doing what, but I couldn't find anything that looked suspicious off-hand (meaning I have no idea).
Can anyone offer any suggestions about how to figure out what this is? Even if it's not spyware, I'd like to know.

Does it pop up in the middle of the screen, or the upper right corner?
If it's in the upper right corner, it is most likely notifications (email, messages and various other apps will send you notifications when you receive emails, messages, or other items). They pop up for 5 seconds by default, and if you are watching a movie in full screen, they might bleed through, but quickly disappear as the movie refreshes the screen. You can show your list of notifications by clicking on the far right icon (looks like a text list) on the tool bar at the top (or by doing a 3-finger swipe from right to left on the touchpad).
Notifications are the only pop up boxes I'm getting, but then again, I don't have a lot of 3rd party software installed.

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