I recently had the opportunity to start using the Norton password manage software, Identity Safe!
The nice part is, you can now download it for free through October 1st!
The thing I've enjoyed most about the program is managing my passwords and the automatic fill out for forms and such.
I don't know about you, but I always thought it was the greatest idea to have a different password for everything. Why? No clue. Obviously in the long run, it has not turned out to be very easy to remember all those passwords. Actually, they aren't all different, but there are definitely many possibilities.
Therefore, when I'm logging into something, it always takes me more than once, usually more than twice, to enter the right password.
Yes, I do get locked out of my own accounts for this. Quite a pain, really.
I'm sure you've all heard of Norton's Anti-Virus programs before. They've been around a LONG time and keep coming up with ways to keep us safe and now, help us stay a bit organized in the process.
They do all kinds of things FOR YOU, safely!
I like that there is a little icon right at the top of my computer and it shows all my accounts that I want/need logins for. I can also just go up there to launch the site and it takes me right where I need to be...especially when I'm not certain in of the password. This is also known as the "vault" and you can enter all your accounts and passwords up there.
I've jotted down a list of about 15 sites I'm going to enter into my vault so I'm not constantly scrambling to remember their login and password information.
Every time your computer closes, you have to enter your vault password to access this. You can also log out of it at any time.
I want to do some more exploring on the not making feature. I'm constantly starting email drafts to make notes and that ends up being a bit chaotic as well.
Seriously, if you want to keep your passwords organized, safely, and have safe notes, I highly recommend Identity Safe. Download for free right now HERE.
Once you have done that, share a story about a time you forgot, or lost your password, as a comment below. Each response will garner automatic entry into a sweepstakes to win one of five Android Tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 - 10.1-Inch, Wi-Fi) with Norton Mobile Security and Identity Safe installed on the device!
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totally have this problem even more now that i've changed my last name!
ReplyDeleteI have such a hard time remembering passwords for the sites that I don't use very often. more than once I've been locked out of my own account or had to start a new account with a different email address- such a pain!!
ReplyDeleteI have locked myself out of my bank's bill pay system so many times(which requires a phone call to the online banking department to reset) that I think the whole department knows me by name. "yes mrs. Vargas we can take care of that for you, again" I think I need to bake them cookies for christmas this year!
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I have recently used the wrong pin code on my debit card. Talk about pain in the bottom. Thanks for the information about this and thanks for the giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteOh my! At our last house I signed up for the phone/internet providers site with the paper I'd gotten in the mail, thinking I'd be able to change the password from the alphabet soup they sent me. I wasn't, and I didn't think much of it until I needed to sign in for technical support and could not for the life of me come up with a password. It then took a phone call to customer service for a password reset, then ANOTHER call (they wouldn't transfer me) for tech support. So glad not to be with them anymore! LOL It's hard enough to remember passwords I set up, let alone nice secure AZDG5623dYuZ type passwords.
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I totally forgot my password to my at&t account, and had a really hard time figuring it out since we don't get paper statements I couldn't find our account number. doh!
ReplyDeleteI am forever trying to make passwords safer by capitalizing a letter, etc. I always forget that I did it! amandajonholley@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI read the other comments and I definitely empathize with others. I forget my passwords and often have to have them re-sent to me. The worst times are when they lock you out of your own account! Though, I do like the extra safety. :)
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The worst for me is forgetting my bank passwords. I change them frequently for obvious reasons, and consequently get locked out of my accounts quite often. Thanks for the chance to win! :)
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Oh I'm one of those that has the same password for everything! Probably not a good idea!
ReplyDeleteThe amount of times I've forgotten a password and been locked out of an account is quite possibly in the hundreds. For cereal. Ha!
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I can't ever seem to remember my passwords - especially for certain bill sites that I don't use often (using my bank's bill pay). The worst is when you have to call your work's IT department to reset your password multiple times!
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This is something that happens to me all the time! I am always losing my passwords. I will be using this program from now on!
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i am that person who could use ginseng when it comes to passwords, almost daily i am using the "forgot your password" feature...just.cant.seem.to.get.it.quite.right.usually. this would come in handy for me.
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I keep ALL of my passwords on a sheet of paper and it works.... until I lose that piece of paper! I'm always paranoid that someone will steal that paper or I will lose it and then I will be in BIG trouble!!
ReplyDeleteI have to keep a master spreadsheet to keep everything straight!!
ReplyDeleteI am so bad a remembering passwords much less anything else. One time I forgot my password to my banking account. When I found it, I was way off.
ReplyDeleteI love to save money by couponing. I am always signing up for things to get stuff for free. Most sites require a password to do so. I hate when I forget my password and have to get it sent to me...problem is I have 3 email accts and never know which one they are sending the password reset to. By the time I check all of the email accts, find the password and reset it, I start thinking is this free item REALLY WORTH IT! lol
ReplyDeleteI love to save money by couponing. I am always signing up for things to get stuff for free. Most sites require a password to do so. I hate when I forget my password and have to get it sent to me...problem is I have 3 email accts and never know which one they are sending the password reset to. By the time I check all of the email accts, find the password and reset it, I start thinking is this free item REALLY WORTH IT! lol
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that throws me off is when the password has to have numbers and letters it gets me every time.
ReplyDeleteFor a while I did a good deal of traveling with the company I work for. In our round of travel we visited 8 cities in 6 weeks. In each city we spent two days presenting training seminars for our customers. My days usually started about 4am and ended around 11pm. Between training days there was travel days that started anywhere from 4am to 9am and ended between 5pm and 9pm depending on where our destination was and what mode of travel we were using. On our last stop we were landing in Palm Spring, CA around 1:30 in the afternoon, West Coast time. I live in East Coast time. I was fighting jet lag before we ever landed. Traveling was taking it's toll on my thought process and I knew I had a seminar to present at 7pm that night. I needed rest!! When I got checked into my hotel I went through my routine for the evening seminar and started to get ready. I needed to load my email and check to make sure my company laptop was ready for the presentation. I couldn't for the life of my remember my login credentials. I had used it faithfully for all this time but no matter what I tried, nothing worked. I ended up calling our IT department back home and having them reset my network credentials so I could create a new login to be able to access our business network. Times of exhaustion would be a great time to have something like this to fall back on.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible to forget the log-in information for online banking!
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ReplyDeleteI was once locked out of my mortgage account because I tried entering the password too many times!
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I'm just happy that I'm not alone....in not remembering and have to reset my passwords every month. I think I have at least 50 different accounts that require passwords and some that I don't log-in often enough, I just have to re-set the passwords every single time. Quite frustrating when you are in a rush trying to get things done. This sounds like the perfect product for me.
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i was on the phone with my phone company and had to tell them my password... it wasn't inappropriate, but definitely needed some embarrassing explanation to go with it :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't figure out my user name and/or password to reorder my prescription meds today.
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https://twitter.com/ky2here1/status/227198206755368962
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My kids schools have a site for parents where you go online and get notices, grading and report cards. Recently, I lost our password and needed to get the school to help me reset the password.
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I often forget my passwords as I've often heard it's bad to have the same password for everything, so this sounds like it would work wonder's and I can feel secure about keeping up with passwords.
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ReplyDeleteI forgot my password for my email account at work as we had to change it weekly and could not get email until Monday when tech support could be reached.
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My email account was locked when I was on vacation because I forgot my password.
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I've had some trouble in the past with trying to remember passwords to websites that I had signed up to, unless I had wrote them down right away or made it something easy to remember if I visited the them on a regular basis. This prize, should I win, would come in very handy, so that I don't have to worry about remembering passwords ever again.
ReplyDeleteI always forget my password, or my husband will change it and forget to tell me. He likes to choose very difficult ones. UGH
ReplyDeleteI had an especially hard time recovering a password for my school account. That's when I learned my lesson and from then on, I recorded all of my accounts' info in one place. https://twitter.com/zhang_kimberly/status/227519404643082242
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I forget passwords for dang near every account I own - the worst were my work email and my bank account. I need to write them down or use this program!
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I forget online passwords all the time
ReplyDeleteI've forgotten mine for my banking website and had to call and go through a ton of stuff to get it changed. It was such a hassle. Thank you!!
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I forget my passwords at work weekly.
ReplyDeleteI forget my passwords too...I blame it on my husband for insisting I change it up! ;)
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Once I forgot the password to my online billpay service and my bank locked up my account. I had to call in order to get everything reset...such a pain!
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I love anything that can make online security easier! Paying bills online makes my life easier and cheaper(no postage). Once I opened a credit card to pay for some dental work and of course paid my bill online. From the 1st month to the next I forgot my password and got locked out of my account from too many attempts. I was hit with a late fee due to this and was so upset since I am a nut trying to keep good credit. Luckily I called the company and explained what happened and my late fee was cleared. Had I had a program to remember my passwords, that headache would have never happened! :)
ReplyDeleteAfter two babies, I can hardly remember my name, let alone my passwords ;)
ReplyDeleteWell there was the time I signed up for a wordpress account and everytime I tried to leave a comment on any blog that used wordpress I had to log into my wordpress account and I could never remember the password and had to reset everytime
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I forgot my password for a work log in – I had checked “remember password” and one day…it was blank! I had NO idea what it was or how to get into the system!
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drives me crazy trying to remember my hubby's crazy passwords for our bank accounts
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Oh gosh this happens to me all the time....but once i forgot my password for the login on my laptop so i had to login on the administrator part(this lasted for like 3 months)....i was lost for so long.....
ReplyDeleteThis isn't my story, but I was just talking to my mom about it last night. My grandfather passed away a month ago, and since then my grandmother has locked herself out of her online bank account no less than 10 times (he used to pay the bills and now she has to do it). Each time she locks herself out, she has to call the bank helpline to unlock her, and it takes them an hour to walk her through resetting it. It's crazy.
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I was just tired of losing my passwords and obviously you shouldn't write them on a sticky and put it on the computer which is what I did.. Hello breached facebook account
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I tweeted about this giveaway
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I forget them so much that now I just write them down.
ReplyDeleteI am always forgetting my password, especially to PalPal. I try to use the same passwords (a no no I know) but some sites have crazy rules that just confuse me. I once tried to log into my hubby’s work sits ( I have his permission) and got him locked out…not good!
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ReplyDeleteI was good about remembering my password, but after a car accident I forget a lot. I forgot my bank password one friday night and couldnt get it fixed until Monday, it made for a long weekend. I am queenesperfect at yahoo.com
ReplyDeletei never forget passwords
ReplyDeleteI rarely forget my password, but I do often forget the security question answers because I do not want them to be “easy”. The biggest mistake people make is making their password security questions answers similar to stuff they post online social networking sites.
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I always used Roboform (a password/form filler) so when I lost my computer and got a new one a few years back. When I went to enter all my usual sites, I found that there were a couple that I had not saved the passwords for and on top of that, they were older sites I had visited for years and used a totally different email address for as well, I was never able to get back into one of those sites. Even with reregistering I could not get in because all the rest of my info was the same so it insisted I was already registered.
ReplyDeleteI tweeted https://twitter.com/eyzofblu63/status/229290348982173696
ReplyDeleteI have my passwords saved on my computer. Once my computer died and with it my passwords. I had a heck of a time remembering all my passwords when I got a new computer.
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Honestly, I have forgotten a specific instance, but I'm so thankful for "Forgot password?" because without that, I'd be in trouble ;)
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LOL I actually forgot my Blogher password just this morning!!! Guess its time to write it down eh? Thanks for the chance to win!
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I always try to use the same three passwords so I don't forget. Probably not the best idea but it keeps me from losing my sanity when logging in ;)
ReplyDeleteI struggled when I got back from maternity leave to work and had to remember 2 passwords. Thank goodness for resetting!
ReplyDeleteI always use the same password but with a different number at the end depending on which account it is but I often forget which number goes with what account so this Norton program will be a huge help!!
ReplyDeleteI lost my password to an online payment website. I had to call for a new one and wait days.
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I think I have like 7 differnt passwords for 7 different websites & my Mommy brain cannot remember which pasword goes to which website! EEkk!! I will definetly have to check this out! Thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteI am always forgetting passwords at work. I am on the phone with the help desk multiple times a month ;)
ReplyDeleteI get locked out of my Target card account every single month. It is so annoying. I hate when you have to have different number/letter combos for each site!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great product! I've tried to start writing down all the passwords for various accounts...but I never seem to put them all in one place! I have been locked out of my bank account too many times!
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I've reset my cookies, which clears saved passwords, and then forgotten my email password at the same time... makes resetting passwords very difficult!
ReplyDeleteI've been lucky since a friend told me about Roboform about 10 years ago. It's been keeping my login and passwords safe and handy for that long. It also generates passwords for new sites.
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I have so many passwords, I am always forgetting one!!
ReplyDeleteI have so many passwords, I am always forgetting one!!
ReplyDeleteI had complete password overload to begin a method as a way of keeping track of them....only to forget what that was exactly/how I was keeping track of them. Onto plan B! :)
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ReplyDeleteOh wow.. With being a college student at University of Houston, you have to change your password multiple times. Like 10 times in one semester. It got so hard to track which passwords I had used and what I could use, or remember. Finally I just stuck with two passwords and changed them up a bit every now and then, because it CANT be a password you have already used. Soooo silly!!!
ReplyDeleteI am always forgetting my passwords. I pay all bills online, and they make me change my passwords all the time, I cannot keep up! sweepmorey at gmail dot com
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ReplyDeletei have forgotten passwords before--so frustrating! Once, I locked myself out of my bank account for 2 months until I called to figure it out!
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There was a time I took a break from the computer and I forgot my password to get onto my computer. OMG I had to reset my laptop back to factory settings and lost EVERYTHING I was so mad, I cried for weeks :(
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I'm really interested in keeping all of my passwords safe and in one place. I've been locked out more than once when I couldn't remember a password and tried too many times. Getting a new one is very hard and frustrating.
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I think I have to request a new password almost every time I try to log into some accounts. Others I have posted on a bulletin board to try and sort through.
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I've been locked out while traveling on business and it's next to impossible to get back until you go back home. I've been stuck in a long line of coffee once which was not fun!
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I forgot my password on my laptop for 2 weeks...I finally figured it out but it drove me nuts!
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I use several different passwords and one time used the wrong one. It locked me out and I had to contact customer support and get back on. Drove me crazy!
ReplyDeleteI forgot my password when I was on vacation. Luckily my dh was at home and he retrieved it for me!
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I was attempting to pay a bill, one that was late, and I kept inputting the wrong password until I was locked out. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteI tweeted here: https://twitter.com/sottovocerocks/status/230444659921518594
ReplyDeletei forget my passwords all the time, most recently at work i had to call and have it reset to logon on to the bank for work to deposit the checks, it was embarrassing
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always forget my bank password because it is so complicated. Got locked out after guessing too many times!
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Ever since companies started doing the lame..one capital, one small, one this and one that rules...how about you let me do a password I can remember?
ReplyDeleteAt work I have 6 different passwords and I forget at least one of them daily! Wish they would let us just have one password for everything!
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I try to make hard passwords but always forget them so have to click on the forgot password button. Then I tried to put them down in code to prompt my memory but that doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteI am constantly forgetting passwords. The "forgot password" button is my best friend. (chelsea.n.daigle@gmail.com)
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