APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIRUS SCAN IN PORTABLE TERMINAL

摘要

An apparatus and method are provided in which, in order to avoid a situation where a vaccine installed in a portable terminal is damaged by a virus and thus a virus scan process cannot be normally performed, when the portable terminal operates as a removable disk or when an external memory is placed in the portable terminal, whether the vaccine installed in the portable terminal is damaged is determined to recover the damaged vaccine, and a version of the vaccine installed in the portable terminal is determined to update the vaccine to the latest version. The apparatus includes a memory divided into a storage area and a backup area to install a vaccine in the storage area and to back up the vaccine in the backup area.