Attempting to access my login credentials?

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NoobYorkCity
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Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:00 pm

Attempting to access my login credentials?

Post by NoobYorkCity »

At the risk of humiliating myself, I'm using Norton AV/360/whatever it calls itself now and it's giving me a warning:

Everything64.exe is attempting to access your login credentials in Chrome application. These credentials include your username and password. What would you like to do?
( Keep blocking ) ( Allow app )

We've temporarily blocked this app to protect your file. To unblock it, allow the app to make changes to your files.

App name C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe
Affected browser Chrome
Password storage path C:\Users\j\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data
Detected by Browser Data Protection

I've been using Everything for months now, absolutely love it, and had zero problems. It's probably nothing, but I can't help but wonder why it would bother using web browser credentials for anything. Thanks everyone.
void
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Re: Attempting to access my login credentials?

Post by void »

Everything just looks for filenames, not content.

Please try disabling icon handlers and see if the issue persists:

Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/icon_shell_extensions=0

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
therube
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Joined: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:48 pm

Re: Attempting to access my login credentials?

Post by therube »

I know nothing of Norton, but it could just be something (as dumb as) Norton monitoring \Login Data\ & anything that tries to access that directory (other then Google itself - & not just the browser, of course, but Google itself ;-)) is marked as "forbidden".
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