"After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier. The virus, called Virus Malaga, was mostly harmless. But the challenge of defeating it sparked Quintero's passion for cybersecurity, eventually leading him to found VirusTotal, a startup that Google acquired in 2012. That acquisition brought Google's flagship European cybersecurity center to Malaga, transforming the Spanish city into a tech hub."
"He didn't leave the company; instead, he went back to tinkering and experimenting without managerial duties. That tinkering mindset also led him to reexamine Virus Malaga and look for details that his 18-year-old self would have missed. First, he found fragments of a signature, but thanks to another security expert, he discovered a later variant of the virus with a much clearer cue: KIKESOYYO."
Bernardo Quintero traced the anonymous programmer behind Virus Malaga, a mostly harmless 2610-byte computer virus that infected Malaga's Polytechnic School in 1992. Defeating the virus as a university student sparked Quintero's interest in computer security and eventually led him to found VirusTotal, later acquired by Google in 2012. The acquisition established Google's flagship European cybersecurity center in Malaga and helped transform the city into a tech hub. After 33 years Quintero launched a search, reexamined the virus code, found signature fragments and a clearer cue 'KIKESOYYO', stepped back from management to tinker, and ultimately solved the mystery.
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