@guy038 said in Notepad++ v8.9.2 Release:

although the auto-updater is disabled,

I didn’t say “disable auto-updater in the Notepad++ preferences”. I said “turn off auto-updater when you installed”. There is a difference. From @xomx’s post in the 8.9 RC announcement discussion:
npp-installer-v89-FL-in-bold.png
vs
npp-installer-v89-noPA-noAU-ok.png

If you uncheck the Plugins Admin and Auto-Updater checkboxes, the gup.exe will not be installed, and Plugins Admin will not work. (I know there was a recent conversation and/or issue and/or PR about also having that remove the old gup.exe if it’s unchecked in the installer, but I cannot find it, and cannot remember whether the removal has been implemented yet or not.)

Many people are taking the (misguided, IMO) approach that, because of the recent kerfuffle about the updater website hack, they should disable auto-updater even when installing one of the recent, secure Notepad++. So I am assuming that @thoralf-gerbeth was one of those who didn’t understand that the auto-updater that ships with v8.9.2 is highly secure and is safe to include when installing Notepad++ – if my assumption is correct, then turning off those options in the installer would explain why Plugins Admin isn’t working. If that wasn’t uncheckmarked (or they don’t remember), I was going to follow up with asking for directory listings of the updater subdirectory, and checking windows file properties for the Mark of the Web and what have you, but I thought the low-hanging fruit of “you told the Notepad++ to not install the updater and plugins admin” would be a good first question to ask.

It seems that malicious ads (promoting a fake Notepad++ website) have returned on the Google search page.
Below is the email I received this morning:

Hi Don
I am a long-time user and admirer of Notepad++. I am based in Australia.

Today, I went to download a copy of Notepad++ to a new machine. When I searched for “Notepad++” in Google, the first link which came up appears to be a FAKE website located in China:

https://www[.]notepadplus[.]com[.]cn/en/

I thought I should let you know, in case this is some kind of hacking attempt.

Any follow up questions, just let me know.

Kind regards

If anyone here has encountered these malicious ads, please use the following link to report them to Google:
https://support.google.com/ads/troubleshooter/4578507?visit_id=639056285883908601-3926234762&rd=1

@donho I created an account just to upvote, but I didn’t have the reputation. There is no information on how to gain reputation (that I could find). I was probably not going to do whatever was required anyway. It would have been nice to allow new users to allow to upvote useful posts, without jumping hoops.