Try This Automatic Password Changer - Comments Page 2

No, thanks.

We change passwords at work every 60 and 90 days. (One password for one area, the other for another area) Most of my passwords are what ever is product is in front of me at the time I get the notification.
I have used ingredients off products, warning labels, etc. If I wanted to create a password at this moment it would be 40%AlcByVol/80Proof, I text myself a hint like Fire No 32. I would keep this product close to my computer until I need to change the password again. Seems to work for me, but I only use this at work since I am forced to change them,
I am on the same page as others and only change passwords when I think someone may have tried to compromise my accounts.

I've been using Kaspersky for a couple of years. Will Dashlane be able to download those passwords or will I have to have Dashlane go to each site and make a new password? It would be great if the new password changers could get all of your passwords from a password changer you are moving from but then it would have to find a way to get into the old program which would make it vulnerable.

Thw whole PW scenario is to me mind bogglingly complex, frustrating & time consuming.
I "use" Lastpass free edition & lets say want to search on Alibaba.
First obstacle" enter my email & password; I can't remember which Email I used years ago & I have no idea what PW I have assigned. The alternative is login with Google which I'd prefer not to do.
OK open Lastpass (I can remember my simple master PW) although I am repeatedly advised its too simple.
The vault opens & I see that there are several entries for Google - lets try the last. Re-enter master PW so that I can see the PW, copy it & enter on the Google login. OK now I am IN but what a fuss, it's tedious time consuming & prone to mistakes (By me). I have maybe a dozen or so things to do that involve the use of a PW. This is not fun!

Would you like to create a different password for each of your web sites without any help from PW sgenerators, that meets all security needs, is impossible to hack and easy to remember?

1. Pick an obscure number that you have memorized. A telephone number or the birthday of a past on relative or friend, a number that is already etched in your brain. The number should be 7 to 10 digits long. Write it down.

2) There are some up to 40 symbols on your keyboard. Pick one and add it either before or after that number.

This is the fixed part of your password that will never change for any web site.

3) The part of the password that is unique for each web site consists of the first three letters of the web site which you want to visit, e.g. ama for Amazon, fac for Facebook.
Capitalize one of these three letters. Add them your number either before or after your number. Which end your add these letters is your choice.

3) Now you have a unique password for each web site that is difficult to hack and easy to remember. The combination of such numbers and symbol together with the capitalization of a letter is called an algorithm.

Once you have committed your algorithm to memory you won’t forget it. No longer do you need to write your passwords down anywhere and, even logging into a web site you haven’t visited for a while is easy.
Do not record your passwords anywhere. Certainly not in the auto-log in function on your computer. Don’t share your personal algorithm with anybody. The only place it exists is in your head. That makes your passwords un-hackable.

Technically, you don’t even need to change a password any more but it is probably a good idea to do so from time to time. And there are sited that force you to change your passwords.
All you have to do is change the capitalization from one letter to another. That single change is easy to remember when you get that “invalid password” message.

When resetting a password, some web sites won’t let you use the same password again immediately. You will have to go through the password change procedure two or three times before you can use your old algorithm again.
Don’t change all passwords at once. You can do that as you go along. All you have to remember is the one character you changed.
However, there is one place where you should record your algorithm: your last will and testament. Your executor will then be able to access and delete your accounts after your demise.

Your last will and testament is published and is not private after your death, so it is not the place to leave your password algorithm for your heirs to find.

I tried Dash Lane and they jerked me around for a couple of weeks. I finely gave up and got my money back. It would be great if I could find a password program for someone 83 yrs old.

To all the posters who said they do not update their passwords. I, like you, seldom if ever change passwords. However, that was in the past. If you ever get hit with identity theft, as I was last December, and have to go through a whole bunch of stuff to resolve that situation, your attitude will change.

Someone made a payment, just before Christmas by telephone to one of my credit cards ($2,700 dollars). Normally, a transaction such as that would only take 2 days to post to my checking account (all I use for bill payments) but after 3 days, nothing hit my credit union. So I thought that perhaps some anonymous good samaritan had paid down my credit card debt. Day 4 arrived and there it was in my credit union's checking account. About the same time, I received an email from the credit card's fraud department about a $1500 charge being attempted on my card and ask if it was me. It was not.

That started the domino effect. I had to call the fraud department to discuss what had happened and my card was cancelled and a new one issued which took up to 10 days to receive (just before Christmas, mind you).

Next, I had to notify my credit union about it but by the time I did, they had already rejected the debit because of insufficient funds along with a fee for same. So they told me that they would close my checking account and give me a new one. Before it happened, the $2,700 debit returned for a second go around, with the same result, and another insufficient funds fee.

Being naive about identity theft resolution, I was in no hurry to change all my passwords, thinking the credit union would honor all charges from my creditors being made to my previous checking account number, just as the credit card company was doing. Not so! They returned each charge to the creditor for reason of a closed account. Then I got hit with all kinds of fees by the creditors, one which was my mortgage company.

To make a long story shorter, here it is March, 3 months after the identity theft occurred and I am just now getting out from under all of the debt that one transaction caused me. Some creditors waved fees, others did not.

Bottom line is, I now change my passwords via Roboform, which I have used for years, every 90 days. The trouble with all of this is that I subscribe to a few sites that monitor my personal data for unauthorized access and had been notified that personal information about me was found on the dark web months before this incident happened. I, being cocky, ignored it because I figured no one knew any of my 20 to 30 character passwords as they were all encrypted and stored in an encrypted vault that only I could access with Roboform. I have earned my lesson the hard way.

The person who made that payment to my credit card company did it by telephone and knew my account number for both my credit card and my checking account. The credit card company DID NOT verify that it was actually me that was making the payment even though I had 2-factor authentication turned on for that account.

I had to send/post fraud alerts in each of the 3 major credit bureaus that remain on them for 12 months. Now, when someone wants to do credit checks on me (or I am desiring new credit of some type) during that 12 month time, I have to be notified and am required to give my permission. What a hassle!

So, I think you all should reconsider not changing passwords from time to time. Unless, of course, you want to go through what I just went through. I didn't think it could happen to me; it did! And I am an IT professional for over 40 years and very security minded in my business. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you! It can happen to anyone! Do you want to take that chance?