
For all the detail change log, please check in the Download page. Notepad++ has a separate menu Plugins to manage the plugins repository. Install Notepad++ plugin using Plugin Manager. One using plugin manager/Admin and another manual method. Otherwise there are a lot of enhancements and bug-fixes which improve your Notepad++ experience. There are two methods available to install a plugin. We are in a f**king corrupted world, unfortunately. Just like knowing the lock is useless for people who are willing to go into my house, I still shut the door and lock it every morning when I leave home. It doesn't prevent your original notepad++.exe from being replaced by modified notepad++.exe while the CIA is controlling your PC. This solution only prevents from Notepad++ loading a CIA homemade DLL. Note that once users’ PCs are compromised, the hackers can do anything on the PCs. Once I killed their process, the install went smoothly with nary a problem. Checking the certificate of a DLL makes it harder to hack. If the certificate is missing or invalid, then it just won't be loaded, and Notepad++ will fail to launch.

with updates 12-29-2010 (and earlier versions) identified the NOTEPAD++ PORTABLE file SciLexer.dll unpacked from install file NotepadPlusPlusPortable5.8.6.paf.exe (source. For remedying this issue, from this release (v7.3.3) forward, notepad++.exe checks the certificate validation in scilexer.dll before loading it. Malwarebytes Forum > Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Support > False PositivesPost PreviewMalwareBytes ver 1. It doesn't mean that CIA is interested in your coding skill or in your sex message content, but rather it prevents raising any red flags while the DLL does data collection in the background. When Notepad++ is launched, the modified scilexer.dll is loaded instead of the original one. The issue of a hijacked DLL concerns scilexer.dll (needed by Notepad++) on a compromised PC, which is replaced by a modified scilexer.dll built by the CIA. Considering we have the prototype, this shouldn't be that big of a deal, but its worth noting."Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed" has been published by Wikileaks recentely, and Notepad++ is on the list. Sptr_t _stdcall Scintilla_DirectFunction(ScintillaWin * sci, UINT iMessage, uptr_t wParam, sptr_t lParam)įor the life of me, I couldn't get this function to be called – I even installed additional plugins that were supposed to interact with Scintilla directly. The exported function has the following prototype definition, according to the open source for Notepad++ online: The DLL does a lot of "set up" in ProcessAttach, so it is important to load the true DLL as soon as the hijack is loaded. This DLL exports only one funciton named "Scintilla_DirectFunction" at ordinal #1 Notepad++ loads Scintilla, a "code editing component" (and seperate project), from a DLL adjacent to its EXE called "SciLexer.dll".

The following DLL hijack works for both the portable and non-portable variants of Notepad++
