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So, here we are again. Those of you with eagle eyes may already have seen this rolling out, but just to make everyone else aware - 18.8 is here.
In our ongoing quest to make your lives as simple and fulfilling as possible, we're proud to present what is likely to be the final release in the 18.x "Leia" series,
before all effort now shifts to 19.x "Matrix".

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The official download of 18.8 x64 from your official link, is being flagged as a virus in firefox. I googled it and others are reporting the same thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/i...load_page/

https://www.win-10-forum.de/threads/kodi...FZv6AGmV3Q

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4b19.../detection

Apparently chrome and IE flag it as virus as welll. Virus total shows adware, you guys add adware in 18.8?
It happens on every release? I have been using kodi/xbmc for over 10 years, and it has never happened before on any release.
(2020-07-30, 15:01)inv3ntor Wrote: [ -> ]It happens on every release? I have been using kodi/xbmc for over 10 years, and it has never happened before on any release.
Maybe you've always downloaded it after the definitions have been fixed, it's certainly been reported multiple times in the past.

Kodi 16 https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258923
Kodi 17 https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=320335
Kodi 18 https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=356123
(2020-07-30, 15:01)inv3ntor Wrote: [ -> ]It happens on every release? I have been using kodi/xbmc for over 10 years, and it has never happened before on any release.

Plenty of Windows anti-virus tools seem to enjoy flagging Kodi's .exe file as dangerous, for whatever reason.
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Clicking the link above instead after deleting the file flagged as a virus solved my problem (there is ofc no link to click above, its just a figure of speech, the link is the link in your browser)
not getting flagged as a virus now
try it if it makes you feel safer could be another server this file is stored on
so possible the file you dl when clicking windows has a malfunction or firefox is just being firefox thx
So where's the link?
(2020-08-04, 03:30)ctpp Wrote: [ -> ]So where's the link?
At the top of the page near the Kodi icon where it says DOWNLOAD