Usually not. A text file should is not able to transmit a virus, which is what a cookie almost always is. It needs to be an executable file. However your internet broweser may have flaws that would cause it to execute code in a cookie... and in that way it could transmit a virus.
Virus shields protect your computer from the viruses.
Probably a affiliated tracking cookie
get norton security!
a computer virus program like" Fire fox", will protect a computer against a virus.
A tracking cookie is not a virus. Sometimes the cookies can be from harmful sites, but the cookie itself does have a virus.
Install anti-virus software.
An antivirus program
it protects your computer from virus's
A computer's anti-virus software has a firewall in order to protect your computer from online/infected files that can contain viruses.
By downloading latest anti virus software
Anti-virus software.
Install anti-virus software.