What is a security risk of allowing mobile code to execute on a target machine?

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What is a security risk of allowing mobile code to execute on a target machine?

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The time delay from when it is downloaded and executed could initiate an asynchronous attack.

It will move or overwrite the original boot process so that every time the machine is powered on, the code will be activated.

Malware may be included in the downloaded code and infect the target machine.

It will contaminate files that contain computer code, especially .exe and .com
files.

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The time delay from when it is downloaded and executed could initiate an asynchronous attack.

It will move or overwrite the original boot process so that every time the machine is powered on, the code will be activated.

Malware may be included in the downloaded code and infect the target machine.

It will contaminate files that contain computer code, especially .exe and .com
files.

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It will move or overwrite the original boot process so that every time the machine is powered on, the code will be activated.

Mobile code always want to be activated, this makes the original boot processes to be overwritten every time which can lead to crash of the operating system.

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