P-Cube guards against 'spam zombies'.(Up front: latest news and insight)(Brief Article)

P-Cube Inc. has travelled a pogrammable service control platform designed to give ISPs the ability to detect and quarantine so-called "spam zombies."

P-Cube, which is in the process of being acquired by Cisco Systems for $200 million, said it added the new abilities to its Engage v.2.1 platform. Engage is also designed to keep peer-to-peer applications in check.

The spam application takes a three-stage approach: identification, protection and notification. Under identification, the platform detects characteristics of a zombie attack early on. The protection