The mod will be removing the �arcade� feel that many people believe has been added to Rome Total War. All fictional or theoretical units are to be removed and more realistic units are to be added. They to take this game and make it �what it should have been.� They will be taking Rome Total War apart from to the skeleton in order to make a more realistic version. Europa Barbarorum is an ambitious mod that wishes to take what Rome Total War is and expand it in every direction. To quote Ace at our modification portal:Įuropa Barbarorum, or �EB� is a mod by the Europa Barbarorum team, a part of the Trivium Organization.
The long awaited day had arrived, and an open beta for Europa Barbarorum has been released. Up-to-date information can be found at the following links:
Since there will always be people who can’t / won’t update their machines for various reasons (laziness, warezed windows install, they’re on dialup, etc.), this temporary measure only helps to stop the initial wave of exploiters and give users a chance to be exposed to news of the problem and a chance to patch their system. Therefore, we will temporarily convert all user-posted images on the forums to links until a patch is released by Microsoft. Thus, it is possible for a user with malicious intentions to post images to our forums (or to any websites that displays user-submitted images) and cause damage to other forum users. png, etc.) and Windows will still parse it as a WMF file. The file in turn successfully installed a trojan onto a fully-patched Windows XP SP2 system.Īnother researcher on the Bugtraq mailing list has discovered that because windows recognizes files by parsing file headers, the malicious WMF file could be renamed with other image extensions ( i.e.jpg.
When it was found by the researcher on the internet, it was presented on a webpage that included a WMF image file in the HTML source code. It involves specially crafted WMF (Windows Meta Fils), which when parsed by Windows XP, causes Windows to execute program code. Recently an exploit was found out in the wild by a researcher on the Bugtraq mailing list. User-posted images on forums temporarily filtered