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Arcade: Dash of Destruction (Free) Content: Dash of Destruction Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: Dash your way through the city as a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex in search of a Doritos delivery truck, or as a terrified truck zooming in and out of the T-Rex’s path of destruction in search of its drop-off points. Enjoy the fast-paced action as a single player or join with friends! This game requires the Xbox 360 hard drive or the 512MB Memory Unit for storage. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts Add this to your Xbox 360 download queue From Major Nelson

Formal Wear for your Avatar Looking to get your Avatar spiffed up for Christmas? We've just unlocked the Formal Wear collection, available right now in the Avatar Editor. In case you missed this tip from before: It is easy to tell what is new when you are in the avatar editor, just look for the gold star. Any item of clothing with a gold star is new since the last time yous signed in. For the gentlemen we have Blue Tuxedo (save that one for prom season) Black Tuxedo Shirt with Cummerbund Black Trilby Bowler Hat For the ladies we have: Elegant Ball Gown Little Black Dress Formal Trouser Suit Elegant Watch Red 60's Shades Strappy High Heels Platform Shoes From Major Nelson

Theres a Q & A on there aswell and the bloke from MS says one of the others rivals has multiple flaws but will not say which one so thats why he doesn't recomend you switch and tells you to reconfig about 10 options on your system/IE settings. I'll go and find the link Edit: Latest entry Is it safe to Explore?Rory Cellan-Jones 16 Dec 08, 13:38 GMT If the average computer user read the Microsoft security advisory about the Internet Explorer vulnerability - and you'd struggle to find it if you weren't looking - you might be none the wiser about how serious this was, or what action you should take. A long way down comes this line: "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user." As far as I understand it, that means there is a real danger that Internet Explorer 7 users (and possibly users of other versions of IE) could be opening the door to cyber criminals to allow them to ransack the contents of your hard drive. In other words, it is a pretty serious situation. So when I spoke to John Curran, head of Windows at Microsoft UK, I had three questions. 1. How serious is this? Mr Curran told me that only a tiny proportion of websites were infected, but given the sheer scale of today's web, that could affect a large number of people. So, he said, "it is certainly something people should take seriously." 2. So what should IE users do? Microsoft is working on a patch but in the meantime Mr Curran said there were four steps to take. - make sure anti-virus software is up to date. - run Internet Explorer 7 or 8 in "protected mode". - set Internet Explorer zone security setting to "High" - Windows users should enable Automatic Updates so that they get any patch that is issued. But of course doing all of that is not only time-consuming, it will make your web browsing experience slower and less rewarding. Which brings us to the final question. 3. Shouldn't you switch to another browser until the patch come out? This has been the advice of a number of security firms - who of course are also touting their latest anti-virus products - but you won't be surprised to hear that Mr Curran disagrees. He told me he had recently seen a report which listed another browser as having the highest number of vulnerabilities. "it would not be advisable," he said,"to send people from one vulnerability (in Internet Explorer) to multiple vulnerabilities." But given the choice between messing around with Internet Explorer and so enduring a second-rate browsing experience until the hole is fixed, or running Firefox, Safari or Opera, aren't quite a few people likely to switch? This could be the moment when the minnows in the browser wars finally score a significant victory. Source

Serious security flaw found in IE Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users. "Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw. Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified. Browser bait "In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing." As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said. "What we've seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it's inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals," he said. "It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs." Said Mr Ferguson: "If users can find an alternative browser, then that's good mitigation against the threat." But Microsoft counselled against taking such action. "I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group. He added: "We're trying to get this resolved as soon as possible. "At present, this exploit only seems to affect 0.02% of internet sites," said Mr Curran. "In terms of vulnerability, it only seems to be affecting IE7 users at the moment, but could well encompass other versions in time." Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam body The Spamhaus Project and an expert on privacy and cyber security, echoed Trend Micro's warning. "It won't be long before someone reverse engineers this exploit for more fraudulent purposes. Trend Mico's advice [of switching to an alternative web browser] is very sensible," he said. PC Pro magazine's security editor, Darien Graham-Smith, said that there was a virtual arms race going on, with hackers always on the look out for new vulnerabilities. "The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough." "It's a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly, but letting people know about this flaw was the right thing to do. If you keep flaws like this quiet, people are put at risk without knowing it." "Every browser is susceptible to vulnerabilities from time to time. It's fine to say 'don't use Internet Explorer' for now, but other browsers may well find themselves in a similar situation," he added. From Radio 1 Newsbeat

Set your Avatar free! Looking for a way to get your Xbox LIVE Avatar onto your iPhone or in Facebook? Head over to the UK version of Xbox.com where they have posted a flash app that will allow you to import your exisiting avatar and export a photo to use with a variety of applications. From Major Nelson

Have you tried looking on another sitye like scan.co.uk or overclockers for it??

I think they said 1200ms points ($15) but others think it will be more at 1800 ($20)

Good man, rep is on its way (if it lates me)

added the link underneath as pics cant be used as links anymore

That was good, need a warning about all the effing and jeffing tho

Thought I saw skoda in it this year but oh well, goes to show how much attention I pay whilst I watch it on Dave. I remeber it years ago when I was really into it and you had the EVO VS Scooby and the MArtini foci (focus') I havent really watched it much since.

From R* mailing list email http://www.rockstargames.com/thelostanddamned/index2.html Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And Damned - ESRB Rating: MATURE with Intense Violence, Blood, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

AM I right in saying Mitsubishi havent been in it for a few years?? if so now scooby pulling the plug and suzuki will only leave ford and seat and skoda. Seems all motosport is goin down hill. Also porsche has pulled out from ALMS aswell

Gears of War 2: Combustible Multiplayer Map Pack Content: Combustible Multiplayer Map Pack Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Germany and Japan Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,INTENSE VIOLENCE,STRONG LANGUAGE] Explosive action takes center stage in these three new Gears 2 multiplayer maps: Flood, Gold Rush, and Fuel Station. Flood features a rising flow of Imulsion that drives the fight into close quarters. Infiltrate an Imulsion factory in Gold Rush, where multiple levels and volatile materials guarantee memorable encounters. Fuel Station delivers a dangerous battle around an abandoned refueling facility. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts. Purchase the Map Pack and add it to your Xbox 360 download queue

Put me down, not sure when ill be on as its my last day at work and we normally go down the pub at lunch. Probably be on about 8 to 9ish

WRC switching to S2000-spec car for 2010 season by Jonathon Ramsey on Dec 13th 2008 at 4:33PM For whom does the cost-cutter's bell toll? It tolls for Formula 1... and for the World Rally Championship. The FIA has announced that from 2010 the WRC will use Super 2000-spec cars, instead of the current championship's Group N racers. As with the FIA's moves in F1 to standardize components in order to help teams save money, the S2000 cars all have third-party-supplied gearboxes and drivetrains, use 2.0-liter engines with 8,500 rpm rev limits, and are prohibited from being excessively modified (if you have some time, check out the FIA-mandated S2000 specs), among other things. Should manufacturers wish to sell their S2000 cars to privateer teams they can charge no more than €168,000. Five time WRC champion Sebastien Loeb has spoken out against an S2000 WRC, saying he won't be interested in rallying if the 2010 regs actually take effect. The Group N cars that drivers like Loeb currently pilot will be relegated to the P-WRC come 2010. We'll find out then if Sebastien Loeb goes with them. [source: WRC] From autoblog

Just make sure the RAM has the right amount of pins as the mobo socket for it and that the the mobo is compatable with that type of RAM (by that I think I mean speed the Ghz bit)

Unfortunately we do not condone the use of hacked/cracked/copied/torrented games on here. Also to access the servers you need a buy the game as all torents/cracks etc are blacklisted and do not aloow you to play online.

Good luck installing it, look forward to seeing pics of you cooler, shame you havent got a window on the side of your case to see it

Chrome was the only one that easily loaded the extreme snow storm thread on here

I got that email aswell and I had the emailed label one

Nice R8 there tim. Heres my latest ride (I won it) and one of the Golf and I also won the Datson (will get pics of that later) [ATTACH]6796[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]6797[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]6798[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]6799[/ATTACH]

Not a problem happy to help. Thatsd new they didnt send me a box, they only sent me the UPS stickers and I had to package it well.

but am i right in saying that for it to work the game needs to be supported by xfire to work with it.

Strange, I'll have a look and let you know, back in a min Edit: CLick "View Warrenty Details" on the Right hand side and it'll show