A fair number of major security vendors have added password management by licensing and rebranding known successful products. Trend Micro DirectPass ($14.95/year, direct) bucks this trend. As expected, it captures and plays back most login credentials, storing them in encrypted form. On the one hand, it's a new, original program. On the other hand, it may be too new, as it suffers some "version 1.0" problems.
DirectPass runs as a local console and browser plug-in but can also sync between multiple PC installations through your Trend Micro account. Unlike LastPass 1.72 (free, 5 stars), Dashlane (free, 4.5 stars), and RoboForm Everywhere 7 ($19.95 direct, 4.5 stars), it doesn't let you log in to your saved credentials online. However, it will sync with free DirectPass apps for Android and iPhone. You can also test a free edition that manages just five passwords.
Interface Woes
DirectPass can export its data for import to another DirectPass installation. It can also import login data from LastPass. Hoping to get a fast start, I imported my 200+ LastPass logins. The results were disappointing.
For starters, DirectPass doesn't include the ability to categorize sites, so my passwords came through as an unordered list, a very long list. There's no way to sort the list, and no provision to search for a particular login. For some reason, clicking in the list's scroll bar doesn't scroll down by one "page" of items. Instead, it scrolls to the corresponding location in the list. Finding any particular login required tediously scrolling through the entire list.
The default name for a login entry is the URL followed by the username. In theory, this combination should help you distinguish between multiple logins for the same site. However, the narrow fixed width of the list means that if the URL is long you won't see the username until you click on the item. Editing each item to use a shorter name would help.
Password Capture and Replay
Like Dashlane, DirectPass skipped import of some oddball logins that it just couldn't handle. However, it also failed to log in with some of those it did import. Most of the logins I tried worked, but not all.
LastPass and RoboForm do a good job of handling odd logins and multipage logins. If necessary, you can have them save all data fields on the login page. DirectPass missed many of the same oddly configured logins that Dashlane did. It managed to capture some, but not all, of the multi-page logins I tried.
When you revisit a site for which DirectPass has configuration data stored, it offers to fill in the username and password. If you've saved multiple sets of credentials for the site it lets you choose among them. You can check a box to make it automatically log in when possible.
From the browser button for RoboForm and LastPass you can open a menu of available logins, arranged by category. DashLane also organizes logins by categories, but within its main console, not in a menu. DirectPass offers an unordered list of logins, so it's not easy to find a particular one. DirectPass users may find it easier to just navigate to the site and accept DirectPass's offer to log in.
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