> Auto-updater will be triggered in few days if there's no critical issue found.
The fixed version (7.3.3) can be downloaded manually or wait for the auto-update.
It's actually very lightweight. Aside from the Scintilla editing component contained in SciLexer.dll, it only loads OS components.
https://i.imgur.com/bwAhWyX.png
You can see for yourself in Process Explorer. Just use View → Lower Pane View → DLLs. You'll see in my screenshot the reality isn't as rosy, besides Notepad++, its plugins (which aren't protected yet, even when they're coming from Don himself), the system DLLs (most protected by Windows against tempering during runtime) and the components of the C++ library there's also Office 2010 components injected via the SharePoint shell extension.