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  "markdown": "Founder, VirusTotal.\n\nBernardo 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.\n\n- GitHub: https://github.com/bernardoquintero\n\n## What Bernardo builds\n\n- [VirusTotal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/virustotal.md), graded B, 67.5/100, in 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 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Alejandro Bermúdez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alejandro-bermudez/), Co-founder, VirusTotal\n- [Emiliano Martínez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emiliano-martinez/), Co-founder and Product Manager, VirusTotal\n- [Francisco Santos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/), Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team\n- [Julio Canto](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julio-canto/), Co-founder, VirusTotal\n- [Victor Manuel Alvarez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/victor-manuel-alvarez/), Co-founder, VirusTotal, creator of YARA\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Bernardo Quintero?\n\nBernardo 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.\n\n### What does VirusTotal make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Bernardo's tools graded?\n\nVirusTotal is graded B, 67.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/we-made-it-together-20-years-of.html\n- https://blog.virustotal.com/2012/09/an-update-from-virustotal.html\n- https://blog.virustotal.com/\n- https://github.com/VirusTotal\n- https://github.com/VirusTotal/virustotal-mcp\n- https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/overview\n- https://cloud.google.com/terms/secops/privacy-notice\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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