[egl2020]

This all fascinating, but in the end: I have notepad++; what should I do?

[Marsymars]

You’d be protected from this particular exploit if you used a package manager rather than the updater, though of course you’d still be vulnerable to the installer binary itself getting compromised.

[nickorlow]

Wonder how many packages in community package repos are compromised. Surely "Hubbleexplorer" can be trusted to provide arch users with a honest, clean version of npp.

[snvzz]

KDE's own kate is a good alternative, and available for install via chocolatey.

[jimbob45]

Gedit is an underrated alternative imo.

[bakugo]

I don't know why that comment is being interpreted as a request for alternatives. They are clearly asking if their machine is compromised.