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Do you have too many Websites, too many programs, too many passwords to keep track of?
Make your life easier (and more secure) by getting a password manager to keep track of all of your passwords for you.
Here's my Best Pick for a password manager...
Publisher: Moon Software Publisher's Website: http://www.moonsoftware.com/ Price: Free, up to 25 passwords. Unlimited version: $19.95
Review I first started using Password Agent in March of 2003 after exhaustively researching and testing every decent password manager that I could find, including the very well known and very popular RoboForm.
Other Reviews (RoboForm) Despite the experience of the PC Magazine reviewers, who said they had yet to see a Web based form stump RoboForm, my experience at the time was that there were quite a few Web pages that it simply didn't work well with at all. It also did not work well with some of the other popular browsers besides Internet Explorer.
Ease Of Use Even as an expert-level user I also always consider ease of use and user friendliness and there also RoboForm fell short. Password Agent is incredibly good at what it does. It's a much smaller program than RoboForm, which tries to be more like a Swiss Army Knife by offering many, many functions and features in addition to just basic password management. Password Agent focuses on only one thing, managing passwords, and does it extremely reliably and well. It is also a very easy program to use.
Works Every Time Unlike in the case of RoboForm, after a year of everyday use I have yet to find a Webpage or PC software program that Software Agent will not work with. Also unlike many of the other products out there, Password Agent works well with ALL Web browsers, including Opera, Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla.
A Personal Password Manager Password Agent is a personal solution. It isn't designed for networked corporate use (to be run from a corporate network's central server). However, you can easily use it on any Windows based PC, whether at work in the corporate office or at home. Password Agent also makes it easy to take your passwords with you if you use more than one computer.
The Only Bad Absolutely the ONLY difficulty that I've ever encountered using Password Agent is that there is a known problem of it sometimes locking up on a Windows 2000 or XP machine. This seems only to happen with installations where many passwords are being managed, as in my case with my paid version of Password Agent. On the rare occasion that Password Agent locks up it IS usually severe, in that it completely locks up the computer, requiring it to be shutdown and then restarted. I should stress again, however, that this only happens on rare occasions on a Win2K or XP machine, and probably only if you are managing large numbers of passwords. For the vast majority of users this has not been a problem, and only a very few have reported experiencing this. Moon Software, makers of Password Agent, are aware of this problem and are working to resolve it.
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