Founder of a listed tool
Francisco Santos
Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team, named behind the VirusTotal listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Francisco 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.
Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team, researched 3 November 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Alejandro Bermúdez Co-founder, VirusTotal
- Bernardo Quintero Founder, VirusTotal
- Emiliano Martínez Co-founder and Product Manager, VirusTotal
- Julio Canto Co-founder, VirusTotal
- Victor Manuel Alvarez Co-founder, VirusTotal, creator of YARA
Questions
Who is Francisco Santos?
Francisco Santos designed VirusTotal's first website, databases and storage systems and now leads its backend analysis team, per the founding team's 20th anniversary post of 30 May 2024.
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 Francisco'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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