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If you have a dynamic IP, it could be that the previous user of that IP was running an TOR exit/VPN.

If you have a static IP, I strongly recommend researching whether the router you are using has any known security problems. Lately unsecured routers have been abused as a (poor) black hat's proxy a lot.

Source: I run a filesharing service and lately we have seen a lot of abuse from IPs who after an nmap reveal themselves as routers with known security problems like publicly known (default) service control panel passwords.



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