Main functions and tools of the BCWipe system

The BCWipe system provides the following ways to shred contents of deleted files:

Transparent Wiping. Automatic wipe of the contents of every file or folder deleted by applications or operating system. This functionality is activated by creating the special task called Transparent Wiping in BCWipe Task Manager.
Delete with wiping. Using the Delete with wiping command, you can delete and wipe file or folder, as well as selected group of files/folders.
Wipe free disk space. When you delete sensitive files using a standard Windows ‘Delete’ command, the operating system does not shred contents of the documents from hard drive, it just marks disk space, earlier occupied by the files, as ‘free’. To remove all the traces of the earlier deleted files completely, use this command to wipe free space on the disk, where these files were stored.
Wipe Temporary Intermet Files. BCWipe can wipe all the traces of your activity in the Internet - cache, cookies, browsing history, search history, saved passwords, last active tabs, etc. Besides of Internet Explorer BCWipe supports the latest versions of the most popular browsers - Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Wipe local history (Wipe names of recently used files). BCWipe can wipe names of files you opened with Windows components and some popular applications. It can wipe names stored on a subfolder as well as in Windows Registry. Unique feature of the function is that BCWipe allows the user to view detailed information about every entry in, for example, Find History list, that can be wiped. Besides, every such entry can be wiped without deleting the whole list.
Swap file protection. BCWipe utility can wipe unused space in the Swap File or keep the whole swap file encrypted.
File slacks wiping. File slack is the disk space from the actual end of a file up to end of the last cluster used by the file. You can turn on/off file slack wiping before running the Wipe Free Space process.
Wipe of directory entries and MFT records. Directory entry is a reserved space on a FAT disk, where the file system stores name and attributes of the file. During ordinary Windows delete operations, Windows marks a corresponding directory entry as unused. Windows does not erase a whole directory entry. (This is why Unerase utilities work!). Any file that has been ‘deleted’ by Windows, can get its name restored by special utilities, and if the file has not been over-written, contents of the file can be recovered. You can set the Wipe directory entries option when you run Wipe Free Space and Delete With Wiping commands.
NTFS filesystem has different structure, analog of Directory Entries is called MFT Records on NTFS. BCWipe can erase MFT Records only when you run Wipe Free Space command for NTFS disk.

BCWipe Task Manager. The utility allows configuring BCWipe to run some wiping tasks automatically. You can set a time for running the task, as well as special options for the task. The utility is used by administrators to configure automatic tasks on users' computers.
Transparent wiping utility. The low-level driver which is responsible for Transparent Wiping functionality.
BCWipe Service. The module is implemented as system service and intended for systems management. With the help of the module administrator can configure BCWipe so that further activity of the software will not require user intervention. Additionally, the module takes participation in Transparent Wiping process.
Swap File Encrypting utility. Swap File is the Windows system file that is used for the virtual memory support, and it can store parts of documents, you are working with, in an opened form on hard drive. Even if some powerful encryption program encrypts an original document, Windows can put a whole document or part of it to the Swap file in an opened form. Encryption keys, passwords, and other sensitive information can also be swapped to hard drive. Even if you use all of the security advantages of the latest Windows versions, simple investigating of the Swap file in DOS mode may allow extracting a lot of interesting information from the file. BCWipe allows encrypting the Swap file contents and preventing such a leak in the operating system.
Hexadecimal File Viewer. Using the Viewer you can examine contents of file after wiping. The utility is useful for investigating a quality of wiping process, for example when you use a custom wiping scheme.
Log Viewer. A convenient tool for reading, searching and filtering information about wiping process.
Automatic Update utility. Allows users to get the latest updates of the software automatically.