System and methods of distributing antivirus checking tasks among virtual machines in a virtual network

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for antivirus checking of software objects in a virtual environment. An example method includes monitoring, by an antivirus agent running on a virtual machine in the virtual environment, one or more events occurring in the virtual machine; determining an object related to the one or more monitored events and a type of the object; determining whether the object needs antivirus checking; sending, to a control module in the virtual environment, information about the object that needs antivirus checking, the type of the object, and the one or more identified events; determining one or more methods of antivirus checking to be performed on the object; selecting one or more components of an antivirus system in the virtual environment; and distributing among the selected components, the antivirus checking methods to be performed on the object.