You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

Notepad is a good text editor because it’s simple and fast. You can type your text and save it in the time it takes to start MS Word. NoteTab Light by Fookes Software is a great replacement that also ...

TED Notepad is a notepad replacement program that has a very straightforward goal: to be a better notepad, not a full-featured programmer’s editor. It succeeds admirably at that goal. When you fire ...