Who doesn't block pop-ups these days? Most browsers have a setting to block popups which is on by default, or/and toolbars that block popups. This is probably your best bet in showing that, at the time of acquisition, the browser was set to block them, maybe even on multiple levels if toolbars were also doing it.
I agree with Paul; check on the pop-up settings during the time in question to counter this response.
Call me dumb, but I don't get it. (
User X may have had pop-up UNblocked for three years and then, one week before the acquisition, a more techie guy may have set them blocked. (or he himself might have learned how to do it).
Is there a way to know if the pop-up blocker was set to ON in a given period of time? 😯
If not, I doubt that finding that the day the acquisition was made pop-ups were blocked can disprove the claim roll, even if some of the incriminating material had been downloaded minutes before the acquisition.
I mean, what do you do if by any chance you start getting on a PC one of those porn or gambling or similar pop-ups?
You check the pop-up blocker settings, possily scan the system for malware, etc. wink
jaclaz
The logic I'm using for checking this setting is that, depending of course on IE and OS versioning, pop-up blockers setting default to on. If these settings had not changed, or were re-enabled prior to the time in question than that specific claim can be disputed.
I agree that there is not a specific way (that I know of..) to show what the settings were during a specific timeframe if they had been modified outside of that window, other than possibly following the settings change with restore point analysis?
Now, it doesn't eliminate the possibility of malware launching the pop-ups, but that's a different claim to counter.