Talk:Mobile agent

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Based on this definition presented, I would guess that worms such as Code Red, and Nimda are mobile agents since they replicate themselves and move across the internet and intranets of the world?

posted by CasR2207

[edit] Definition of Mobile Agent

Agreed, we must include the concept of a Mobile Agent Runtime which will amongst other issues manage security (host protection from malicious agents and agent protection from malicious hosts). This is the only way of distinguishing mobile agents from malware.

Contributed by T.P Dhliwayo (Zimbabwe)

[edit] Viruses and worms: types of mobile agents?

Aren't viruses and worms subclasses of mobile agents? Shouldn't this be mentioned in the article? Tmangray 17:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)