What you need to do is get a proper web browser. Stuff like that shouldn't happen. Internet Explorer is frankly the least modern of all popular browsers these days and security-wise it is a total joke, with 31 unpatched vulnerabilities at the moment, and Microsoft has nearly stopped updating it.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
Mozilla Firebird. Less than 7 Megabytes to download. Fast, free, secure. Blocks pop-ups effectively. Tabbed browsing, type-ahead find (this is indispensable once you've gotten used to it: for example, to go back to the forum from this page, I just type "Roy(enter)" and the "Royal Carnage" link is automagically selected and followed.) , better CSS and PNG support then IE has.
It's just a shame more people don't realize they have better alternatives to IE... I'm doing my little bit of propaganda here