Patent ID: 8659770

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: an image forming section that performs image formation on a medium; a connection section that communicates with an information processing device; a request receiving section that receives a request from the information processing device through the connection section, the request receiving section being an embedded web server through which the information processing device accesses the image forming device; an illegality detection section that determines whether the request is an illegal access request; a notice section that notifies an administrator that the illegal access request is detected by the illegality detection section; a limitation section that rejects the request and blocks access to the embedded web server from the information processing device, based on the illegality detection section determining the request to be the illegal access request; and a web page creation section that creates a web page indicating that the illegal access request is detected, wherein the embedded web server provides the web page, and wherein the notice section transmits a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web page created by the web page creation section through the connection section to the administrator by using one of an electronic mail, SNMP-trap, and a certain protocol, wherein the web page includes an interface enabling the administrator to set at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) access filter on an IP address of the information processing device, IPsec and SSL.