Sanford Wallace, former spammer and now spyware installer with his company Smartbot.Net, today was ordered by a New Hampshire district court to pay restitution to consumers in the amount of four million dollars. Co-defendants OptinTrade and Jared Lansky were required to pay $227,000 in restitution.
The complaint alleges that the Defendants installed spyware on user’s computers without consent in order to sell their anti-spyware products.
For more information, here is a link to an article discussing the case at Internetnews.com