This utility provides the ability to completely clean deleted files and "deleted space" on your hard drive and
on floppy disks as well as any writable media. FileVac also allows you to
securely delete individual files and entire folders and all of their subfolders so as to
render them to be unrecoverable.
FileVac allows secure deletion of individual files from the desktop as easily as a
drag-and-drop. It can also be run in a variety of configurations, including in DOS. Any
individual file has its slack space between the end of the file and the end of the disk segment
deleted as well. All destroyed entries are "zeroed out", so the filenames/foldernames are set
to zero length. This ensures everything is incapable of being recovered.
FileVac can also perform disk wiping of all deleted space on a drive, restoring it to a newly
formatted emptiness. There is a choice of destruction methods including:
Normal mode: removes contents, reformats empty space using 0xFF(1 pass)
Secure mode: remove content, random overwrite, reformat space (2 passes)
DoD 5220.22-M: remove, random write, remove, 2nd write, reformat (4 passes)
Guttman STD: 16 passes, multiple random overwrites/compliments, final reformat
Custom: Guttman STD, with choice of up to 255 passes (final reformat)
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