Comment by floam
It’s not necessarily malware. There are services that are pretty upfront and pay cash money for residential US bandwidth. That said, naive people might be surprised when their IP starts getting blocked.
e.g. https://www.honeygain.com/ (something like 100GB = $20).
>That said, naive people might be surprised when their IP starts getting blocked.
Or law enforcement shows up at their door because their IP is involved in a bunch of illegal stuff.