Patent 9015841 was granted and assigned to Tencent on April, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method and apparatus for virus scanning, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions for performing virus scanning. The method includes detecting a status of a system; and when the status of the system is idle, if current virus scanning has begun, continuing the current virus scanning, and if the current virus scanning has not begun, acquiring a scanning progress of previous virus scanning, beginning the current virus scanning according to the acquired scanning progress, and recording a scanning progress of the current virus scanning.