"Overcautious customers tend to disable Poproxy manually in the Task Manager (accessed by hitting Control-Alt-Delete in Windows), others get weary of the program and decide to block it when their personal firewall reports that Poproxy is trying to connect to the Internet, " said Van der Grift.

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If the icon doesn't provide a menu, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select the name of the tray application, and click the End Task button.

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