Are "Cookies" Harmful?

[Sarah]

Our son seems to have found his way to some adult websites on our computer.
We found this out in doing our routine disk cleanup, wherein we noticed
various "cookies" apparently put on our computer by these sites.

Are these cookies harmful, and should they be deleted? If we happen to miss
any, are we at all vulnerable to anything destructive, such as viruses or
trojan horses and the like, on our computer?

Thank you for any and all advice!
Sarah

 

[Anonymous]

Just text files which are used to store information such as personal
preferences on your PC that the originating site can access, saves you from
having to re-enter the information every time you re-visit the site, used
sometimes for advertisement purposes. Executable files and scripts might be
a different story. Don't download from anybody and only from trusted sites!
Lavasoft has a nice spyware-adware remover. www.lavasoft.com and it's free!
Get a good virus program such as f-prot from frisk, also free (DOS version
which works fine in Windows is free).
K


Get a program such as Ad-ware which can delete all the cookies

 

[Anonymous]

Opps! And don't click on any links from stangers! Thats link should have
been http://www.lavasoft.de/
lol

 

[Anonymous]

Especially those that don't spell check!

Opps! And don't click on any links from stangers! Thats link should have
been http://www.lavasoft.de/
lol
might