# Victor Manuel Alvarez

> Victor Manuel Alvarez is co-founder, VirusTotal of creator of YARA. VirusTotal on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-11-03

Co-founder, VirusTotal, creator of YARA.

Victor Manuel Alvarez created YARA, the pattern-matching tool VirusTotal maintains, helped design VT Intelligence and Hunting, and announced YARA-X, per the founding team's 20th anniversary post of 30 May 2024.

## What Victor 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, creator of YARA, 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
- [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

## Questions

### Who is Victor Manuel Alvarez?

Victor Manuel Alvarez created YARA, the pattern-matching tool VirusTotal maintains, helped design VT Intelligence and Hunting, and announced YARA-X, 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 Victor'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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