# Victor Manuel Alvarez (slim)

> 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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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.

### 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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