INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

In an image forming apparatus, appropriate virus infection countermeasure processing is executed using a new virus scanning engine or the like, and a likelihood that the image forming apparatus may be infected with a computer virus is reduced.An information processing apparatus includes a print data acquirer that acquires print data, a virus detector that executes predetermined infection countermeasure processing on the print data and detects a computer virus, a virus scanning information generator that generates virus scanning information for specifying a setting item related to the infection countermeasure processing executed and adds the virus scanning information to print data in which a computer virus has not been detected by the virus detector, a print information generator that generates print information including print data requested from an image forming apparatus connected via a network among a plurality of pieces of the print data acquired, and a print information transmitter that transmits the generated print information to the image forming apparatus.