Cannot access passwords on Password Manager

Possibly Microsoft Windows Defender senses something.

See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/overview-attack-surface-reduction?view=o365-worldwide

Scroll down to: “List of attack surface reduction events”


Try: Start your Windows OS machine, into Safe Mode(?) and run a complete scan.


Using the Windows OS command line (command prompt), the following command

dir /p /o:d

Provides a list of files in chronological order, for your present directory. Very handy for finding recent virus invaders and their associates, that generally appear within a certain time frame (recent).

It is a lot of work, marching through Windows OS machine directories, in particular, the AppData then Local then BraveSoftware directory and its sub-folders:

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\

but that is a handy command for finding some things . . . that ought not be on a PC.

Another tool - Kaspersky Rescue Disk:

  1. Save the Kaspersky Rescue Disk software to a USB memory device or a CD/DVD (to learn how to do this, see support.kaspersky.com/8092).
  2. Boot up your PC – from the storage device that contains Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
  3. Update the antivirus databases.
  4. Run a system scan on your PC and then follow the instructions on your screen.

Learn what you can, online, about where MIcrosoft Windows OS has scheduling features - one or more might be set up to cause the unexpected/undesired activity.