SeleniumからInternetExplorerが起動できない場合

以下のようなエラーでSeleniumからIEが起動できない場合には、IEのポップアップブロックが有効になっていることが影響しているようです。

Java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.createBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:145)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.getBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:85)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.createNewRemoteSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:341)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:119)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:82)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.getNewBrowserSession(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:658)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.doCommand(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:392)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handleCommandRequest(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:368)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handle(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:129)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:982)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833)
	at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)
	at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)
	at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
	at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1938)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsUtils$RegKeyValue.(WindowsUtils.java:639)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsUtils.deleteRegistryValue(WindowsUtils.java:594)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsProxyManager.handleEvilPopupMgrBackup(WindowsProxyManager.java:108)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsProxyManager.init(WindowsProxyManager.java:83)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsProxyManager.(WindowsProxyManager.java:67)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.(InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java:55)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.(InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java:47)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.(InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java:43)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.createBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:134)
	... 17 more

OpenQA: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1