BCWipe User Reviews
Spectacular
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"Use Caution when doing a free space wipe on your system drive"
Version: BCWipe 3.07
Cons
After initiating a free space wipe on my Win2k system drive I got multiple prompts for my Service Pack 4 CD stating that critical Windows system files had been changed. My Kerio firewall went nuts with all the external calls to the Internet during the wipe, and during reboots. I lost a lot of Windows functionality after the wipe. For example No text or graphics in any System Windows like Explorer, IE and Search Windows. Fortunately I had a copy of SP4 and ran it before rebooting and I was back to normal. If you don't have SP4 on Win 2k handy I wouldn't recommend wiping free space on your system drive. My biggest question is why does this application need to call out to the Internet to function? If you deny access via your firewall it will not execute.
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"Destroyed my Windows XP Pro machine..."
Version: BCWipe 3.06.4
Pros
None.
Cons
I've been a programmer and system admin for 8 years, and have tweaked my PC above and beyond its limits. I know what I'm doing, and this lame piece of software totally destroyed system files essential to running XP. Piece. Of. Crap.
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"Whoa..."
Version: BCWipe 3.06.4
Pros
Umm... uses the DoD.
Cons
It added two minutes to my boot time (seriously) when encrypting the swap file and initializing it with random data. It should be MUCH faster.
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"A top product to do what it does. There is no equivalent."
Version: BCWipe 3.06.4
Pros
Very wide range of wiping protection. Unique (to my knowledge) low level swap file encryption (so you only need wipe it once to get rid of old data). Scheduled wipes, startup wipes, right click access. Its got everything.
The previous reviewer has obviously never used BCWipe. The program he mentions (Copywipe) is an old dos program, useful in its way, and can copy data between drives, but for wiping it cannot remotely compare with BCWipe.
Cons
Its not free! But well worth the money.
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"Second rate wiper"
Version: BCWipe 3.06.4
Cons
Yet another app that suffers from lazy interface design. It's also overpriced, and TeraByte Unlimited's CopyWipe is better, has more features, and is almost half the price of BCWipe.
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"UNSTABLE!"
Version: BCWipe 3.06.3
Cons
THIS THING IS UNSTABLE! I KNOW, I'VE TESTED IT.
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"Good, but Anti Tracks is better"
Version: BCWipe 3.06.3
Summary
I used BCWipe for the past year, but found that Anti Tracks blows it away, removing files that BCWipe missed, and Anti Tracks lets you write erasure plug-ins for any program on your desktop via a wizard. Tres cool.
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