OSX unexpectedly asks for admin credentials

Hi everyone,
a few seconds after waking up my iMac today I dialog box was shown: "App store tries to install new apple software. Enter name and password of an administrator to allow this" (the message was shown in german, this is just a translation by me). The dialog box shows a closed lock with a terminal window as icon. Of course I did not enter any credentials.
As I have not initiated any software installation and the App store application was closed I wonder if my Mac got compromised somehow, I have never seen such a dialog without any prior action by me. Scanning for updates after canceling the dialog worked without problems and without asking for the credentials.
Further investigation shows a log message "the software updated has restarted - reconnecting now" around the time the message was displayed, so this might be the reason. As an additional test I killed the softwareupdated process from a remote machine and the same message was shown a few hours later with the same log message, but this is no proof that the restart of this process triggered the dialog.
I am using a iMac 27" with OSX 10.9.4, all updates installed.
All held is highly appreciated, thanks in advance!
Dwalin

Dwalin wrote:
I have activated to load new Updates in the background, to install system files and security updates but not to install app updates.
At the time the dialog was displayed all updates had been installed, no new updates where displayed the app store.
I forgot to mention that I am working as a normal user without administrator privileges .
Then it seems to be doing what it is supposed to do. It is asking you to install the update after having been downloaded.
The setup pane indicates it will notify you when the app is ready to install. However, I have mine set to install all updates so I don’t know what form that notification comes as. It seems like it would be a normal notification and you would click “Install” or “Later” to dismiss it.

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