BCWipe Military-Grade Secure File Delection

BCWipe v.3 supports the Windows desktop operating system since ME up until Vista as well as Windows Server 200x. CPU and disk space requirements are minimal. There is no RAM requirement, so the more the better as usual.

Users of Linux, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, AIX, as well as HP-UX based systems use BCWipe for UNIX v.1.9-2.

The easy installation of BCWipe involves the standard steps Welcome - Choose Install Language, EULA, Install Destination, Program Folder selection, License information, and clicking Finish.

BCWipe‘s GUI is called BCWipe Task Manager and has been designed with the KIS paradigm in mind. The same is true for BCWipe‘s accompanying CryptoSwap utility explained below, yet I fail to see the need for two separate interfaces.

You can launch BCWipe from the command-line prompt, a file or a folder’s context menu as well as from the Windows Start Menu. Right-click a file, choose delete with wiping, and then click options to select or confirm the DoD 5220.22-M eradication standard with which you will be safe in an audit as data cannot be recovered unless, perhaps, by a large funded organization using multi-million dollar high-tech equipment. Alternatively, BCWipe can apply the Peter Gutmann wiping schemes, or 1 pass overwriting, but the later is definitely not secure.

Besides delete with wiping BCWipe can wipe free disk space, slack space (free space within fixed-sized disk cluster units) as well as eradicating traces of empty directories. You can configure BCWipe Task Manager to automatically wipe selected files such as temporary Internet files, cookies, the hibernation file etc when they are not in use. BCWipe’s integrated CryptoSwap utility can be used to encrypt the Windows Page File, also known as swap file.

Note please that wiping takes a significant amount of time which is the case for any undelete software. To wipe a 1 GB USB stick on a powerful Vista computer BCWipe estimates 12 minutes for a seven pass completion using DoD 5220.22-M, and 57 minutes if the Peter Gutmann 35 pass wiping scheme is used. Again, that's for one Gigabyte only!

The manual does a good job already, and the vendor’s website additionally includes FAQs, tips & tricks, a forum as well contact to support using forms or email.

BCWipe for Windows costs $/€ 39.95. “Prices in Euros (€) are for European customers. VAT number is required; without it 22% Finnish VAT will be added. For customers from other countries, prices are in U.S. Dollars ($).” - http://www.jetico.com/online-shop/order.php

Given the weak dollar European customers pay a lot more than those buying in dollars, let alone the VAT! On a dollar bases BCWipe for Windows is very competitively priced.