# Francisco Santos (slim)

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

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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.

### 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

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