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Norton Password Manager 2004

Norton Password Manager 2004

List Price: $39.95
Your Price: $36.95
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Better alternative
Review: A better alternative is Bagusoft Password Safe. (www.bagus-software.de). It also has an AutoFill function and you can use it on a USB stick. It's cheaper than Norton and there's also a Freeware Version without AutoFill.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ok
Review: After trying the free trialware version I bought a copy of this program on Ebay for about $10, for that price it has done its job. As with other reviewers, there just isnt a central file or somewhere that you can see your passwords on, like a spreadsheet. One change I would make in this program is that it assumes that you only have 1 account on every webpage. yes the program allows for several user profiles however, if for example, you have 2 yahoo email accounts, it will only allow 1 password per page per profile. otherwise you would have to manually type in the second account each time which defeats the purpose of the program.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Needs major enhancements before it is useable.
Review: After waiting forever for this product to actually be released, I am severely disappointed after having it for 24 hours. First, it can only be installed on one computer so you have to buy additional copies for your home and work computer. Second, once it starts remembering your passwords it is great about automatically filling them in for you at web sites and programs, however you can never see your passwords in the clear again. Since the program remembers them for you, it won't be long before you forget all your passwords, without retrieval. Since you can't see them in the clear, they are lost to the internal encryption within the program. It desperately needs a way to see all your passwords in the clear if you so choose!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Avoid it by all means
Review: Everyone of us wants to have a secure digital password manager to help in organizing and accessing your critical information, be it credit card number, banking account or web site access.
You do not want to entrust all this information to some shareware program from no-name vendor. That's why I was very excited to see a late entrance by Symantec - a name you can trust (within reason) would not misuse your data for a personal gain.

Howerer this particular version 'Norton Password Manager 2004' is completely unusable and actually can bring more problems then solve them. Let's see:
- it requires additional license (= more money to Symantec) for each PC you are going to install it on;
- it is limited to store only three addresses per user profile (I guess Symantec knows better then user how many addresses user may have);
- detects userID:Password logins from some Windows programs (not all) and from about a 1/3 of all sites I tried it on (so you can still excercise your memory remembering the rest of logins);
- only works with Internet Explorer of all browsers (Microsoft stopped by and said thanks)
- does not allow you to see your own passwords, once you are finally able to teach the program to store them for you (how is that for managability?)
- does not allow for manual data entry except for credit card information, so if you have a banking or brokerage account you want to store - good luck with that;
- not portable, so you can't take it with you on the road

Symantec should be ashamed to put a Norton trademark on such a lousy product. Did they listen to customers at all when designing it?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A big mistake
Review: I only wish I'd read the other reviews before wasting money on this product. It doesn't recognize many of the sites I use and can't be made to record their passwords. It is, quite literally, a liability and having spent $40 on it I have removed it within hours - the first time I have ever felt obliged to do so.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Just terrible
Review: I would expect products by Symantec to be of higher quality. This one is just terrible. There is no way to add new passwords manually, and it doesn't detect alot of login sites.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't do the job
Review: There are no provisions to backup your passwords, nor provisions to randomly generate passwords. How can I move my passwords from a desktop to a laptop? This software does not allow you to control where the data is saved. This software assums that you have some other master list of passwords in case this data is lost. I can't believe Norton put their name on this product.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't do the job
Review: There are no provisions to backup your passwords, nor provisions to randomly generate passwords. How can I move my passwords from a desktop to a laptop? This software does not allow you to control where the data is saved. This software assums that you have some other master list of passwords in case this data is lost. I can't believe Norton put their name on this product.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Password Manager
Review: This is the sorriest software package I have ever purchased. I was offline when I laoded it and when I went to log in I found it had trashed my modem drivers. I cleaned up the mess with GoBack, went on line and reloaded. I did the reboot and guess what-NO MODEM DRIVERS. When I went to Symantec they did not even have NPM listed as a product so it was impossible to get installation help

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Absolutely Awful!
Review: This product just doesn't work. It is unfortunate that I have to give this piece of garbage even 1 star. If I could, it would get a -10.

I agree with the other reviewer that browserplus (www.browserplus.com) has a much better (and less expensive) product that actually works and does a lot more. If you need to manage your passwords, bypass this product and go right to the browserplus website.


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