>>myster+(OP)
I guess my habit of running a firewall and not allowing programs to access the internet unless they actually need it is helpful for stuff like this.
Absolutely no reason a text editor needs internet access.
I only update stuff through winget, which fetches the installer from github in a lot of cases, and changing a package requires a PR to the winget repo AFAIK. Not foolproof of course though.
>>Pet_An+9Q1
As for updates - my OS has a built-in package management system, which is responsible for installing and updating packages. Why should notepad++ bypass that and do its own independent update process?