Protecting your passwords on the Internet

This section describes how to protect passwords.

This functionality is not available on the Kaspersky Basic subscription plan.

About protecting your passwords on the Internet

The Kaspersky Password Manager application is not part of Kaspersky Basic and Kaspersky Standard subscription plans. If you want to use the Kaspersky Password Manager application for password protection, you can download and install it as a separate application or switch to Kaspersky Plus.

If you are an active Internet user, you normally have to use many different passwords, such as when you visit websites of banks, social networks, and mail services. It is not convenient to use a large number of passwords because you have to remember which password you use on a particular website. This frequently causes users to resort to the easy solution of using one simple password on different websites. However, this is not a secure solution. A simple password that is used on several websites can be easily cracked or intercepted by hackers. If this happens with a password from a banking website, you risk losing your money.

Check password strength

Whenever you create a password on a website, Kaspersky checks the strength of your password and notifies you about it. From the notification window, you can proceed to the window used for downloading Kaspersky Password Manager. You can use Kaspersky Password Manager to create a strong password and store your passwords.

Protect against using the same passwords

When you enter a password on a website where password security is especially important (such as on a social network), Kaspersky prompts you to enable protection against the use of the same passwords.

If protection against the use of the same passwords is enabled, Kaspersky checks whether or not you have previously used the password that you are entering on websites of the following categories:

• Websites of banks and payment systems;
• Social networks;
• Mail services.

If the password that you are entering has already been used on the websites of these categories, Kaspersky notifies you about it and offers you to create a new password. You can select website categories, for which the use of the same passwords should be monitored.

If you use Kaspersky Password Manager

If you have downloaded and installed Kaspersky Password Manager, password protection is disabled in Kaspersky. Password protection will be provided by Kaspersky Password Manager. Kaspersky Password Manager is designed to safely store your personal information: passwords, passport details, financial and medical data. For more details about how to protect your passwords, please refer to the Help text for Kaspersky Password Manager. Kaspersky does not monitor creation of passwords, does not check if you use a password used on the websites of banks, social networks and mail services on other websites, and does not show notifications about the strength of a password or its use on other websites.

Kaspersky does not notify you when a password that is being used on the websites of banks, social networks or mail services is also used on other websites if you have downloaded and installed Kaspersky Fraud Prevention for Endpoints 3.5 or later.

Configuring Password Security Check settings

To modify Password Security Check settings:

1. Open the main application window of Kaspersky.
2. Click the button in the lower part of the main window.

   The Settings window opens.

3. In the Privacy settings section, select the Secure Data Input subsection.
4. Select the Show password strength in browser check box if you want Kaspersky to check the strength of passwords that you create on websites and notify you about it.

   If you have Kaspersky Password Manager installed, the notification will recommend a strong password to you. If Kaspersky Password Manager is not installed, we recommend that you download and install it to make sure that you always create strong passwords.

5. Select the Warn about using the same passwords on websites check box if you want Kaspersky to check whether or not you have previously used the password that you are entering or creating on the websites of banks, social networks, and mail services.
6. Click the Select website categories link to go to the Website categories window if you want to select the categories of websites for which the use of identical passwords must be checked.
7. Select the check boxes for the following categories:
   • Internet banks and payment systems. When you create or enter a password on the Internet, Kaspersky checks whether you have used this password on the websites of banks and payment systems.
   • Social networks. When you create or enter a password on the Internet, Kaspersky checks whether you have used this password in social networks.
   • Mail services. When you create or enter a password on the Internet, Kaspersky checks whether you have used this password in mail services.

Running Kaspersky Password Manager

Kaspersky Password Manager is designed to safely store and synchronize passwords across your devices. Kaspersky Password Manager has to be installed independently of Kaspersky.

After installation, you can start Kaspersky Password Manager from the Start menu (in Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows 10), from the Start screen (in Microsoft Windows 8 or Microsoft Windows 8.1), or from the Kaspersky window.

How to start Kaspersky Password Manager from the Kaspersky window

How to download and install Kaspersky Password Manager

See the Kaspersky Password Manager Help for instructions on using Kaspersky Password Manager.

The Kaspersky Password Manager application is not part of Kaspersky Basic and Kaspersky Standard plans. If you want to use the Kaspersky Password Manager application for password protection, you can download and install it as a separate application or switch to Kaspersky Plus.