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It took Bernardo Quintero more than three decades to track down the ghost in the machine.
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Bernardo Quintero is the founder of VirusTotal, a startup that was acquired by Google in 2012. He spent more than three decades trying to find the author of a computer virus that transformed the Spanish city of Málaga into a cybersecurity capital.