I'm not a computer tech either and I have never heard of it before but I got these results from a google search. It's got something to do with a company called PaloAlto.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-32,GGLD:en&q=%22PAS8%5FUpdate%2Eexe%22
My system has been running very slow past week. I just disabled 'motive smart bridge' over a week ago. Don't know if it is related but ow my task manager shows a process running with the icon of a bright yellow lightening bold, simply with the word 'update' What is updating?? How to I get it to stop. It seems it has intefered with my POP server initializing. In the process window, the only update running is PAS8_Update.exe - is this the lightening bolt and what program is this??
Thanks,
I am not a computer tech, please help
Stephanie

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