Select below the type of malware that appears to have a legitimate use, but actually contains or does something malicious: a. worm b. trojan c. virus d. script

Which of the following methods could be considered a “best practice” in terms of informing respondents how their answers to an on-line survey about personal information will be protected? respondents are informed that investigators will try to keep their participation confidential; however, confidentiality cannot be assured. respondents are informed that a research assistant will transfer all the research data to a password-protected computer that is not connected to the internet, via a usb flashdrive. the computer is located in a research team member’s office. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain her institution’s method for guaranteeing absolute confidentiality of research data. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain how respondent data will be transmitted from the website to his encrypted database without ever recording respondents’ ip addresses, but explains that on the internet confidentiality cannot be absolutely guaranteed.

What is the worst-case complexity of the maxrepeats function? assume that the longest string in the names array is at most 25 characters wide (i. e., string comparison can be treated as o( class namecounter { private: int* counts; int nc; string* names; int nn; public: namecounter (int ncounts, int nnames); int maxrepeats() const; }; int namecounter: : maxrepeats () { int maxcount = 0; for (int i = 0; i < nc; ++i) { int count = 1; for (int j = i+1; j < nc; ++j) { if (names[i] == names[j]) ++count; } maxcount = max(count, maxcount); } return maxcount; }

Which of the following is not a way in which trees benefit the environment? a. they remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. b. they remove a significant amount of oxygen from the atmosphere. c. their roots hold soil in place, reducing rates of erosion. d. they remove ozone and particulates from the atmosphere. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d