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Wiping files File wiping means that you remove a file in a way that it cannot be restored. If you just delete a file it can be very easily restored with special software, after some time the task becomes more harder but it can still be done by a professional using special hardware. Now, this can be a problem if you have some very sensitive data on your computer, for example credit card information. jv16 PowerTools offers a very good solution to this problem. You can wipe your sensitive files with it very easily, just start the file tool, drag the files you want to wipe to it, select them and click Wipe under the More functions button. Technical details The file wiping procedure in jv16 PowerTools works by overwriting the data many times. First the file is written over with plain zeroes, then with ones. This is done three times. After that the file is written over with totally random data for ten times. The random data is generated by cryptographically safe pseudo random number generator (PRNG). And, of course, the file buffers are flushed after each write. And by the way, if you wipe files yet still tell the program to backup them first the program remembers that the files were wiped. So if you later decide to remove also the backups with the backup tool it knows automatically to wipe also the backup files.
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