Patent ID: 8689332

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a first information processing unit which is connected, at a communication unit of the first information processing unit, through a first communication system of a communication network to an external virus management function device; and a second information processing unit which is coupled with the first information processing unit as one body in the information processing apparatus and connected, at both a communication suspension instruction unit and an anti-virus startup unit of the second information processing unit, through a second communication system of the communication network to the external virus management function device, the second communication system being different in type and independent from the first communication system, wherein the communication suspension instruction unit is configured to receive, through the second communication system of the communication network, communication suspension information transmitted when the external virus management function device detects virus infection from information during communication, through the communication unit of the first information processing unit, through the first communication system of the communication network and stop the communication unit, and the anti-virus startup unit is configured to remove the virus in the first information processing unit by anti-virus solution information subsequently received, after receiving the communication suspension information, from the external virus management function device through the second communication system of the communication network.