Various factors can lead to high or excessive usage of system resources for the SearchFilterHost.exe file, as detailed below: The SearchFilterHost.exe file is generally stored in the ...

Note that although the file size did not change during steps 3-5, the entropy decreased, indicating more zeros within the file, thereby providing more compression opportunities for subsequent steps.

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...