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  "markdown": "Co-founder, VirusTotal.\n\nJulio Canto wrote the first lines of VirusTotal's code and launched its first version, per the founding team's 20th anniversary post of 30 May 2024.\n\n## What Julio 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. Co-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- [Bernardo Quintero](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bernardo-quintero/), 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- [Victor Manuel Alvarez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/victor-manuel-alvarez/), Co-founder, VirusTotal, creator of YARA\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Julio Canto?\n\nJulio Canto wrote the first lines of VirusTotal's code and launched its first version, per the founding team's 20th anniversary post of 30 May 2024.\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 Julio'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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