Are you looking at the correct program?
Mine says freeware right in the About Screen...
From the site below:
    Card Wiper beta for Windows
    This is a FREE download from the PhotoRescue folks,
    the URL (there) will prompt you to save a file called CW.ZIP

I ran another (free demo - no save) data recovery program on the card,
and it came up clean and blank...

                                               Rick Glazier

From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
> FYI, the little program at the URL in here is no longer freeware.

> >From: "Paul A. Valentine"
> >> I fixed my card by running a free program, "Card Wiper"
> >> http://www.steves-digicams.com/digsoftware_utils.html

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