You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...
Microsoft has fixed a If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the ...
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According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution vulnerabilities, three denial of service vulnerabilities, five security feature ...
The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run malicious code on a Windows PC.
Microsoft has patched the Windows Notepad remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-20841, warning users to install ...
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