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IT brains develop first African anti-virus software

IT brains develop first African anti-virus software
Innovative youths from Baringo County at work. (Photo: Boniface Thuku)

Baringo, Kenya: It all started three years ago as a small technology centre to nurture Form Four leavers with an interest in Information Technology by university students in a remote village in Baringo County. That small centre has now grabbed world attention by producing the first-ever African-made computer anti-virus software.

Bunifu Technologies has suddenly found itself in the limelight after a breakthrough that birthed Bunifu Sniper Malware, a home-made anti-virus device.

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