VIRUS INFECTION PROTECTING METHOD

PURPOSE:To guarantee the safety of an entire network against virus inflection by registering the virus inspection conditions of each computer connected inside the network and inhibiting access to the network of the computer to which the virus inspection is not executed. CONSTITUTION:When the necessity of communication with the other computer is generated, virus protect processing parts 13 and 16 of respective computers 11 and 12 request the virus inspection information (protect data) of the opposite computer 12 to the master computer 11 and when the virus inspection is not executed, it is reported to the opposite computer 12 that the communication is not permitted. The virus protect processing part 16 of the computer 12, which receives the report of communication disability, executes its own virus inspection and transmits the inspected result to the master computer 11, and the master virus protect processing part 13 of the master computer 11 prepares or updates and manages the protect data from that information.