We have seen a number of products that claim to protect you against viruses in cookies. Cookies are simply data files that some web sites will save on your hard disk.
Cookies pose no threat beyond wasting a small amount of disk space.
Web sites store information about your visit to the site in these files. Both MS Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers give you some control over whether you will accept Cookies. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, refuse all cookies, or the browser can ask you each time a web site wants to store a cookie on your disk. Just as with cookies, we have seen a vendor that claims to protect you against graphics. Almost all web site contain a large number of graphics that are downloaded and automatically displayed on your screen.