I tried to do the normal thing -- come to this website to add a blog entry.
But, strangely, the site presented me with a different user/password challenge than normal. And then it took me to the normal signon page.
Being familiar with the potential behavior of spyware, I immediately decided to change my password. But the site wouldn't let me in.
This looked bad! So I followed instructions to have the site send me my password. Strangely, when the e-mail arrived, the password was as I expected.
Yet, when I used the password to log in normally, it still did not work.
But for some strange reason, it worked enough to let me change my password.
One of the problems with Spyware is that its mere existence creates FUD.
So I wasted 25 minutes of my life, when it was probably just a server glitch at Lycos.
But I'm running Spyware Doctor just to be safe.