PC utilities forum: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords

period, enough said.
It does it all, and does it perfectly when it comes to managing password. check it out, try and buy it. you will love it.

Methinks that's a good idea. I use it as well, but have not done so in iambic form --- yet.

I just had a password request where 1 capital letter and one of the following @,~,! etc is required. the number of possible combinations would start to get unmanageable even if you knew what the requirements were

Instead of "3desdemona", you might consider "d3sd3mona". That wa you've got a password that should be ther right length - if you need to lengthen, add "my" before it. If you need to have a least on or 2 cap letters, always make the "d" a cap.
That way you have your memborable formula.
Now I have to go back to every site and change my password to match my formula!!

Using Firefox gives one the ability to assign "properties" to bookmark links. This is accessed with the right click menu and isn't likely to be something others would consider looking into even if they had access to your system. Under properties/description I type in user name and password information for all my bookmarks. When banks or other site passwords are updated I simply access the information contained in the description, make appropriate changes, and then don't have to think about it again. This methodology is explained in my will, which is securely locked away and in the possession of my attorney so that my executor would have electronic access to my accounts in the event of my death or incapacitation.

In reading your reply about the domain name and the e-mail you have going to aol e-mail, I'm trying to understand exactly how you combat the privacy issue with companies.

So you create an e-mail such as myspace@mydomain.com, so if say you were using twitter. You'd say your e-mail was twitter@mydomain.com ? so that you would know specifically who was selling your e-mail out? Is that the understanding?

It may be too early in the morning and I'm not able to grasp what your saying, so if you can please explain in detail. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
belnbst

Problem with that, surely, is that once the villain has cracked one password it's not too difficult for him to work his way through the rest.

I've used the free "Password Corral" from Cygnus Productions for years. It has every feature one could possibly want in a password manager program without all the extra "bells and whistles" of most of the shareware and commercial password managers. It's very compact and offers the choice of 256 bit Blowfish or 128 bit Diamond 2 encryption. It also offers a wide choice of password characteristics in its password generator feature. All in all such a great little program that I had no hesitation in making a contribution its designer.

I too use Password Corral as do both of my children(on their own profiles), with my profile alone containing over 80 passwords stored in different folders. As glinwnc stated 256 & 128 encryption is available, with the program also able to generate passwords based on user preferences. After a brief scare when we thought the HD had crashed (laptop battery had come loose), we backed up all the Password Corral profiles to two external drives. Now each time we update a password or add a new one, the profile is then copied to an alternating external drive, similar to what I do with my Quicken backups, each "profile.pc" having an appended date. If there is a problem it is very easy to return the "profile.pc" (after deleting the date) back to the related Password Corral folder. By default, this folder is located in each users My Documents folder, listed as "Password Corral Data". As an added precaution, we change our 'entrance' password every 3 months. We have used this free program for years and it has made password retrieval more manageable, especially for those passworded accounts that are only accessed once or twice a year. We too made a contribution to the program designer for this very compact and user friendly program.

I'm not sure how Google etc. use and store passwords but if they store the passwords on your computer rather than a network server of some kind then you are lost if you try to access a site from any other computer than your own. I experienced this when I changed my personal computer and only had backups of my known personal data.

Nuff Said!
Roboform not only safely stores username/passwords and other types of login information, it also opens the web page for you or just fills in the information if you've already opened it.
It also stores personal information that can be used to fill out other types of forms, such as purchase orders, with one click.
It keeps track of just about any kind of information you can think of. I use it to store license keys and other license info.

The one thing I wish it would do is open up "Windows" type login screens for local programs. Alas it doesn't... yet.

I guess I said more than enough, but you can't go wrong purchasing Roboform.

I am currently using a password program called ZNET Password Pro. I currently have about 200 passwords, program license codes, etc stored. Will Roboform import any of these?

"...worms.."? A typo, or a freudian slip?

Been using it for,,,,, seems like ten years

Very simple. Go to https://lastpass.com/

I never knew managing my passwords would be so easy.