Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...

The updater integrated into Notepad++ has allowed itself to be infiltrated by malware, which has been installed on some PCs. The developer of the powerful open-source text editor is responding with an ...

This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are warning that the Notepad++ updater, which goes by the name WinGUp, links to malware servers. This is a case of traffic ...

Sessions in Notepad++ grab the complete state of your workspace. A session file saves the full paths of all open documents, ...

The only problem? There is already a fantastic fully-featured plain-text editor that has been available for years that is ...

Application Writing is the process of drafting a formal request to someone in an authoritative position to seek permission, ask for something, or apply for a post. An application is written in the ...

Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s updater. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported in early December that a ...

For better readability, all formats are automatically converted to pretty-printed format when opened in the editor. After saving, the file is converted back to its original format before compression.

There are some use cases where it would desirable to have application messages formated as JSON documents. Most popular logging packages don't support this, but they are easily extended to handle ...

Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors on Windows, has rolled out version 8.8.9 to patch a serious security flaw that allowed attackers to hijack its update process and push malicious ...