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2 weeks agoHow a Spanish virus brought Google to Malaga | TechCrunch
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.
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