1. A method for receiving and processing data to provide executable content to portions of a facsimile document comprising: receiving data using a facsimile reception protocol, said received data having one or more portions associated with virtual machine instruction code; identifying the portions of the received facsimile data associated with the virtual machine instruction code; using the received facsimile data to acquire the associated virtual machine instruction code; displaying the received facsimile data, and executing the virtual machine instruction code in connection with the portion of the displayed facsimile data associated therewith.