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This paper analyzes the use of mobile code, including security considerations on networks, and concludes that mobile codes are necessary and useful, but require strict security measures to maintain data integrity.

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"Even casual computer users are familiar with firewalls - programs designed to protect their computers from malicious programs that might download themselves onto unsuspecting machines when they are connected to the Internet. What many computer users may not understand is that the same type of programs that might contain viruses and Trojan horses are also used to perform critical functions when one is connected to the Internet. These small programs automatically download themselves onto machines without action from the user and run in the background... "

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