cookies

[jimh5]

Been using spybot for years; suddenly it started "finding" tracking cookies as threats (1384 of them). Some of these are financial accts etc, that I don't want to disrupt. Are these really a threat? Only had 1 trojan in a year or so (opachki.ru). What's the real danger from these?

[Zenobia]

The cookies being found are coloured red after the scan,and not green?

Two sites explaining tracking cookies:
http://chris.pirillo.com/what-is-a-tracking-cookie/
http://ask-leo.com/what_are_tracking...oncern_me.html

If there are any cookies you don't want to delete,you can open Spybot,click Mode,Advanced Mode,Settings,Ignore Cookies,and checkmark any you do not want removed.Any cookies Spybot classes as tracking cookies should be coloured red in Ignore Cookies,I believe.

This shows how to block out most third-party cookies:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/37.html