Battle Lastpass or F-Secure KEY

[uxbal]

Looking for a safe way to manage my passwords, and am wondering, which of these two is better? + Is it better to only use the browser to save passwords, or is it better to use something like these two? Is any other internet security suite offering such a product, that is really good?

Thank you!

 

[frogboy]

Lastpass for sure.

 

[Atlas147]

Haven't used F-Secure's Key but Lastpass has been a joy to use. I have been using it for several years now and at the most I run into one or two sites that have issues with Lastpass in my entire time using it.

 

[Ink]

A secure password manager is highly recommended over storing credentials in the built-in browser password manager.

I have both Avast Passwords and LastPass, but the latter is superior.

 

[uxbal]

Is there any need for a paid account with LastPass? Are the ads nagging all the time?

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Is there any need for a paid account with LastPass? Are the ads nagging all the time?

I share a free LastPass account with my wife. Surprisingly, particularly since this is a free service, I have not experienced any ads
thus far.
The main attraction, for me, if I were to move to a paid (Premium) account ($12 per year US) would be the ability to access LastPass on ones phone. You can try it free for 1 week, I believe.

 

[Cohen]

Is there any need for a paid account with LastPass? Are the ads nagging all the time?

You don't get ads from LastPass about moving to a premium account as far as I know. Though, I could be wrong as I've had a premium account for a while so I could have forgot, but I can't remember having any bad experiences like that.
Here are the features of the different types of accounts:

 

[Atlas147]

I share a free LastPass account with my wife. Surprisingly, particularly since this is a free service, I have not experienced any ads
thus far.
The main attraction, for me, if I were to move to a paid account ($12 per year US) would the the ability to access LastPass on ones phone. You can try it free for 1 week, I believe.

I love my Lastpass premium, syncing my passwords between my computer and phone is a lifesaver. Especially now that I've changed my passwords to Lastpass generated ones, not gonna be remembering them any time soon

 

[LASER_oneXM]

i'm using LastPass (free version) since about 5 years on all my windows machines (w7 and W8.1) together with Firefox (only): i had no problems at all with this software. The free version doesn't show any ads. Unfortunately i can't compare both softwares, because i've never used "F-secure KEY" before.

 

[sunrise]

First, what do you want? A free or paid product?
Second, offline usage/fully online?

Browser storage is not secure. I was a Lastpass free user. Last year, if I am not mistaken, they have the promo to upgrade the account for free. So I am now a premium user for free for about more 3 years. Lastpass works. If you use a proxy stuff like zenmate/tunnelo then sometimes it will go into offline mode > just logout.

I do face problems with some sites like my own banking site as maybe because I am not in the west, so maybe the bank's website coding was not done properly.

But other than that, it's a perfectly good password manager. Combine that with 2FA, (google authenticator) and it's secure.

You don't need to waste money buying unnecessary security suite to get a password manager. Better to have a standalone password manager.

 

[CMLew]

I voted Lastpass.

 

[Purshu_Pro]

Lastpass Premium is preferred solution for managing passwords. Stable and secure as others said before.

 

[Ink]

Is there any need for a paid account with LastPass? Are the ads nagging all the time?

There are no Ads in LastPass except the offer in the Vault (website).

According to their latest business model if you registered LP from mobile then Desktop requires Premium, and vice versa if registered via PC (Desktop) the mobile apps need Premium.

LastPass Premium is very cheap compared to other password manager services, and worth upgrading if you use LP on both Desktop and Mobile devices.

 

[LASER_oneXM]

....yes LastPass seems to be a quite good software: i would also recommend to take a look at www.xmarks.com (online bookmark manager). "Xmarks.com" is a LastPass company (source):

In November 2010, Xmarks was acquired by LastPass, makers of the award-winning cross-browser, cross-platform online password manager. The acquisition included a restructuring of Xmarks into a "freemium" business model while bringing Xmarks' powerful bookmarks solution to millions more users.

Both tools (free versions) are working fine on my systems.

 

[Aura]

I've been using LastPass Premium for over 2 years now, and it's probably one of the best investment I've made. Took me hours to change all my passwords and now I couldn't live without it. If you want, you can export all your passwords to a plain text file (or .csv file) and then save it in an encrypted container, in case something goes wrong.

 

[hjlbx]

The problem with password managers from Norton, Kaspersky, F-Secure, etc - is that their password managers are not closely tested nor actively developed.

At least with LastPass there are many dedicated users that - when they find something wrong - will report bugs\vulnerabilities and Marvasol (LastPass publisher) fixes them.

Report a password manager bug to Norton, Kaspersky, F-Secure, etc - and it is likely never to be fixed or - if it is fixed - the fix will come years later. For example, Kaspersky's password manager did not function on 64 bit systems for years. I don't know that it does today.

LastPass new releases are few and far in-between; security soft password manager new releases are almost never.

In terms of protection, I trust LastPass over others.

 

[askmark]

Lastpass for the win!

Have been a user from day one and can't see any reason to ever change, but I am keeping a careful eye on LogMeIn's influence.

 

[ElectricSheep]

Bit late coming into this, but LastPass (using free version) is an excellent password manager and it's a doddle to use too

 

[Evandro]

Lastpass Premium is preferred solution for managing passwords.

 

[jamescv7]

Lastpass is already the frontrunner of all password manager because of intensive security features.

But not a bad idea to try others which made by AV itself.