Are cookies harmful?

[Zodiax]

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.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4587/42441094.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/42441094.jpg/)

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?

[drragostea]

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.

[Zodiax]

What are they for, though? And if they're not harmful, then why are they even detected?

[Zodiax]

Anyone wanna answer me please? How do I remove cookies? And I thought stuff in red are actually real threats...

[Tom.K]

For blocking third-party cookies, read this FAQ:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/37.html

About Tracking Cookies:
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=346717&postcount=2
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=344859&postcount=2 (Includes FAQ link)