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Are cookies harmful?

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Zodiax

New member
First of all I'm sorry if I posted in the wrong section, I'm quite new here.

I just scanned using this program Spybot, and this is what it found.



As you can see it found lots of cookies from sites that I don't even know. I haven't even visited those sites before.

Could these be spyware or something? Are cookies harmful in general?
 
You usually pick up those cookies in your daily browsing. Those cookies are harmless. They are not malicious, so you do not have to worry. Spybot-Search&Destroy is just telling you, that you have browser cookies. You can remove them with ease.
 
Anyone wanna answer me please? How do I remove cookies? And I thought stuff in red are actually real threats...
 
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