Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
A particular computer virus frequently infects personal computers through an email message. Even though virus-scanning software installed on a computer is designed to identify and alarm the user of a virus infection on that computer shortly after it occurs, this particular virus is rarely observed by virus-scanning software. This fact, however, does not mean that the computer's security systems have blocked installation of the virus, because _______________.
【选项】
even after the virus had stopped spreading, the backdoors created during the initial infections remained active
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