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I read some websites that say braviax is just malware that installs itself on a PC with the red (X) in the system tray and popping up a message to say. Your PC is infected.

Well it was infected with braviax and not only that when following the removal instructions. Removing braviax.exe by shift deletion, then removing a friend of it in a file simply named as BRAVIAX.EXE-0B81BFC9.pf Well, the shit hit the fan. According to the virus scan, running AVG at the time along with Windows Defender and an out of date firewall called Sygate. There were a number of intrusions. 5 one scan, 2 another scan.

I started trying to remove the other stuff, but in two days what ever was left on the PC, a variation of braviax maybe. What it seemed to be doing was first to remove the start menu bar, then all the icons effectively taking away your desktop. The next thing the virus did was erase half the windows registry.

So all I could do and end up with was the task manager program which I could access with ctrl-alt-del string. I could see the processes which all looked innocent but could of possibly been taken over by fakes. I was pretty sure wuauclt.exe was copied over by that virus which does that. Because it was functioning in the processes without asking to update Windows. There was SHeur.cdsc which I don’t know what that did.

So instead of trying to remove any more malware, viruses it’s down to the good old format and start again. How inconvinient for one little braviax.exe and it’s friends.

There seemed to be a lot of praise going towards this film and a posthumous award for Heath Ledger. I can understand honouring the guy because he accidentally killed himself. But for the film itself I found rather long and if not dull. Although all the action was sound, the script was well played and cast. But the jokes that popped up when Jack Nicholson was playing the role of Joker. Well he was so much more fun. Ledger’s joker was so much more messed up. For one moment he is telling one story then another moment he is saying something completely different.

Maggie Gyllenhaal who plays Rachel Dawes taking over from Katie Holmes who played the character in the first film looked terrible. I am not sure if it was to look that way, but her face kept looking more and more skeletal as the film went on. There was certainly some glamour in the film, but that was shrinking into the blackness of the set.

You do see some daylight, but most of the film is all night scenes with bad guys left right and center. There was a fair bit of mental gore if not more makeup gore. There are more elements consistent with a horror movie than an action flick. Seeing Two-face is rather disturbing and waiting for the film to end seemed to be my only hope.

In fact my hope was too see a slightly shorter movie with a few more jokes and a storyline which wouldn’t be so depressing. At least because the aircon broke down in the cinema I got a free ticket to see a different movie next time I go.

3 out of 5.