Flash Player.plugin on Mac OS X causes a plugin [195.165.205.181] to start

Whenever I have the Flash Player.plugin in the Libraries/Internet Plugins folder on my iMac, this shows in the privacy->cookies/plugins
[195.165.205.181] plug-ins
I narrowed it down to flash by moving all plugins out of that folder and restoring them one at a time.  Once I narrowed it down to flash, I deleted the Adobe Flash folder and the re-installed Flash from a current download at get.adobe.com.
As soon as I restart Safari, that IP address is back.  As soon as I remove the Flash Player.plugin from the folder, it goes away.
Any ideas?

To update, downgraded Flash Player to version 9 r151 and all
issues with crashing browsers are resolved. Same problems with
permissions being off after a fresh install of 9 r151. So the
conclusion must be that the problems arise with Flash Player 10
itself.

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