Founder of a listed tool
Bernardo Quintero
Founder, VirusTotal, named behind the VirusTotal listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Bernardo builds
VirusTotal B · Security intelligence
VirusTotal, part of Google, aggregates verdicts from over 70 antivirus engines and URL scanners on files, URLs, domains and IP addresses. Agents call the v3 REST API with a key, or VirusTotal AI over REST and a remote MCP server.
Founder, VirusTotal, researched 3 November 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Alejandro Bermúdez Co-founder, VirusTotal
- Emiliano Martínez Co-founder and Product Manager, VirusTotal
- Francisco Santos Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team
- Julio Canto Co-founder, VirusTotal
- Victor Manuel Alvarez Co-founder, VirusTotal, creator of YARA
Questions
Who is Bernardo Quintero?
Bernardo Quintero had the initial idea for VirusTotal, the file and URL scanning service launched on 1 June 2004 and bought by Google in September 2012. The founding team's 20th anniversary post says he now focuses on using AI to make threat analysis smarter; he merges pull requests on the official MCP server and writes on the VirusTotal blog.
What does VirusTotal make?
Anchor Terminal lists VirusTotal from VirusTotal. VirusTotal, part of Google, aggregates verdicts from over 70 antivirus engines and URL scanners on files, URLs, domains and IP addresses. Agents call the v3 REST API with a key, or VirusTotal AI over REST and a remote MCP server.
How are Bernardo's tools graded?
VirusTotal is graded B, 67.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (7)
- https://blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/we-made-it-together-20-years-of.html
- https://blog.virustotal.com/2012/09/an-update-from-virustotal.html
- https://blog.virustotal.com/
- https://github.com/VirusTotal
- https://github.com/VirusTotal/virustotal-mcp
- https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/overview
- https://cloud.google.com/terms/secops/privacy-notice
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