# Francisco Santos

> Francisco Santos is co-founder, VirusTotal of leads the backend analysis team. VirusTotal on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/index.md (~900 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/index.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/francisco-santos/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT <slug>.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-03

Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team.

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 Francisco 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. Co-founder, VirusTotal, leads the backend analysis team, researched 2026-11-03.

## Works with

- [Alejandro Bermúdez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alejandro-bermudez/), Co-founder, VirusTotal
- [Bernardo Quintero](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bernardo-quintero/), Founder, VirusTotal
- [Emiliano Martínez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emiliano-martinez/), Co-founder and Product Manager, VirusTotal
- [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 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

- 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

These 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.

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