The portable installer for Notepad++ 8.8.2 is rejected by Microsoft BitDefender and quite some more others:
NPP portable 8.8.2 installer on VirusTotal
Maybe you can check, what triggered this?
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This is due to the base notepad++.exe files from the publisher being unsigned. The 32-bit version has multiple false positives. I've signed them with our digital certificate and released it as Rev 2. The installer and both notepad++.exe files show as fully clean in VirusTotal as of release.
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