Question ID:PT25 S2 Q9 Passage:Consumer advocate:  Last year's worldwide alarm about a computer "virus"‚ a surreptitiously introduced computer program that can destroy other programs and data‚ was a fraud.  Companies selling programs to protect computers against such viruses raised worldwide concern about the possibility that a destructive virus would be activated on a certain date.  There was more smoke than fire, however; only about a thousand cases of damage were reported around the world.  Multitudes of antivirus programs were sold, so the companies' warning was clearly only an effort to stimulate sales. Stem:The reasoning in the consumer advocate's argument is flawed because this argument Correct Answer Choice:EChoice A:restates its conclusion without attempting to offer a reason to accept it Choice B:fails to acknowledge that antivirus programs might protect against viruses other than the particular one described Choice C:asserts that the occurrence of one event after another shows that the earlier event was the cause of the later one Choice D:uses inflammatory language as a substitute for providing any evidence Choice E:overlooks the possibility that the protective steps taken did work and, for many computers, prevented the virus from causing damage