Norton Password Manager 2004

by Symantec

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C8Y0U
• Item model number: 10109252
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,585 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs major enhancements before it is useable., November 20, 2003

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E. Rasmussen "ericashburn" (Ashburn, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Password Manager 2004 (CD-ROM)

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!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't do the job, March 23, 2004

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Harkirtin McIver (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Password Manager 2004 (CD-ROM)

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.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid it by all means, January 26, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Norton Password Manager 2004 (CD-ROM)

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?