Malicious Notepad++ Google ads evade detection for months

Sublime Text is pretty great, though I don't know that you'll see much benefit in switching. Notepad++ is a perfectly cromulent editor

If you're just watching log files, https://fileviewer.com/ is an excellent file viewer. I've been using it for many years.

That was the original reason. Back in my day we had interactive Flash ads that could run basically any code they wanted while flashing bright lights and scantily clad women at you. One of the major reasons we had ad blockers was because it was so easy to get a virus from a malicious ad.