@Ben-H Unfortunately, there is a further detection in the behaviour section: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7094a07167648628e47249a16d9d6db922e5aa1255ac4322a2e4900d233372dd/behavior
The sandbox Yomi Hunter flags this file as: MALWARE
In this case I have had a bad experience with this company, they classify almost everything as malware and never respond. VirusTotal should really require companies participating in VirusTotal to respond to requests for False positives.

@Ekopalypse
In terms of XBrackets behavior, the difference between typing and pasting is important.
When a user types ‘[’, XBrackets will autocomplete it with ‘]’.
When a user pastes “[”, XBrackets will not react.

@xomx, thank you very much. When I selected another font (Ebrima), the problem was resolved.

@Dave-Lang
I’m not familiar with your problem but your issue did make me recall a previous post here.

It might have occured as you just updated the version of Notepad++ from a very much older one, or possibly changed to a different font.

Anyways, read that post and maybe you might find the answer.

Terry