Pop-up blockers are all useless IMHO - you can achieve the same effect by disabling all scripting/ActiveX in the Internet zone, then enable it only for the Trusted Sites zone. Add sites which absolutely require scripting to that zone, and you'll never have any problems with popups and malware again.If scripting is still enabled, even with most popup blockers I can still force a popup with some obfuscated script, which I believe the site you're using is doing. Redirected the site to 0.0.0.0 in HOSTS will not stop the popups from appearing, they will still occur but instead of their usual content they'll contain error messages instead. ...and with the secured IE setup I suggested above, you won't even need Windows Defender