The OP was confused. "I never set up a proxy," they wrote. "Is this malware?"
Sure enough, within seconds, the status appeared. extratorrnet.cc . The name felt like a clue. Dropping the .cc , the core was "extratorrent" — the ghost of Extratorrent, the legendary public tracker that had shut down in 2017. The .cc suggested a proxy site. extratorrnet.cc proxy
It started, as many technical mysteries do, with a Reddit thread. A user had posted a screenshot of their qBittorrent client. The tracker status for a popular public torrent was a single, cryptic line: "Warning: extratorrnet.cc proxy is down, trying next one" The OP was confused
http://extratorrnet.cc/announce
I let the torrent run for an hour. The client kept trying extratorrnet.cc every few minutes, getting the same empty response, then falling back to the other working trackers. It caused no harm, no benefit, just a tiny trickle of bandwidth to a forgotten server. extratorrnet