# Bernardo Quintero (slim)

> Bernardo Quintero is founder of VirusTotal. VirusTotal on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder, VirusTotal.

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.

- GitHub: https://github.com/bernardoquintero

## What Bernardo builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Alejandro Bermúdez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alejandro-bermudez/), Co-founder, VirusTotal
- [Emiliano Martínez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emiliano-martinez/), Co-founder and Product Manager, VirusTotal
- [Francisco Santos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/), Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team
- [Julio Canto](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julio-canto/), Co-founder, VirusTotal
- [Victor Manuel Alvarez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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.

### 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

- 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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