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When Transparent Wiping is activated, the special  driver intercepts all  'Delete' operations in the system and moves the deleted files to the  BCWipe temporary folder (~BCWipe.del). BCWipe detects the existence of files in this folder and permanently wipes them and makes the record in the log file.

Transparent Wiping sometimes conflicts with anti-virus programs. We are aware of conflicts of two types:

1) Some anti-virus and anti-spyware programs create (and delete)  small TMP file for each record to a TXT file.

If generation of the log file is enabled in BCWipe Transparent Wiping task, then the following happens:

-->BCWipe makes two records for each deleted file (queued for wiping --> wiped).

-->Antivirus creates two temporary files (one for each record) and deletes them.

-->BCWipe takes those files for Transparent Wiping and makes 4 records in the log file.

-->Antivirus creates 4 temporary files and so on.

So Transparent Wiping process is working, but BCWipe.del directory grows. Antivirus does not report any "threats detected".

2) Other conflict is related to an "infection" found by antivirus (false positive). For some reason, some antiviruses send virus alert after a file is moved to BCWipe.del temp directory. Such files cannot be wiped by BCWipe because antivirus blocked access to the files.

There are several ways to avoid these conflicts.

Both programs - BCWipe and any antivirus - have "Exceptions" list for file objects and also for processes.

So BCWipe Transparent Wiping can exclude antivirus process, and the file won't be moved to temporary directory and antivirus won't send the alert.

In the same way, antivirus can be configured to exclude BCWipe temporary directory from real time protection.

Which of these workarounds is better?

I am sure, the second one. Unlike the first way, it does not cause any security leak, because Transparent Wiping still wipes everything. And it does not make antivirus protection weaker, because BCWipe temp direcrtory (~BCWipe.del) always contains only RENAMED files, i.e files that resided on some other directory and so were already scanned by antivirus.

So, my suggestion is to add BCWipe temporary directory ~BCWipe.del  to antivirus real time protection "Exclusions" list.