California- The State of California has filed two spyware complaints in Superior Court. Enternet Media, Conspy & Co., Lisa Rohbani, Baback Hakimi and Nimi Hakimi are accused of being “primary culprit(s)” in the “sad turn of events” in which millions of unwitting citizens’ computers are turned against them by unscrupulous businesses, such as defendants’, who are accused of infecting computers with spyware, adware, junkware and other noxious products, which are “unanimously reviled and condemned.” u.S. consumers spend $3.5 billion a year to clean their computers of such obnoxious spyware, the state claims. Defendants allegedly install programs to display unwanted pop-up ads, change users’ home pages and install a “porn dialer” that brings them unwanted pornography. The state seeks fines of $2,500 per violation. Defendant in the second, similar case, is Intermix Media. The state cites Consumer Reports in claiming that spyware costs U.S. consumers $3.5 billion a year to repair their computers, 52 percent of 3,200 computers users polled in September reported a spyware infection n the past six months, and 18 percent said the infection was as bad they had to erase their hard drives.