Free Antivirus Tools Command 42% Market Share
Free Antivirus Tools Command 42% Market Share
Posted 07/08/2010 at 6:16am
| by Pulkit Chandna
4
Comments
Print
When Microsoft first announced plans to launch a free antivirus software, Symantec and McAfee met the news with disdainful skepticism, arguing that a free antivirus could never compete with their own products. But Microsoft Security Essentials is now the fourth most deployed antivirus software, according to Opswat's latest antivirus market share report. Opswat has a front-row seat to all the action as its flagship product, the Oesis Framework, is a widely used development kit for managing third-party security applications.
Free antivirus tools are more popular than what the likes of Symantec and McAfee will have you believe. In fact, the four most used antivirus tools are all absolutely free. And free offerings command a very healthy 42% market share.
“Although the true market share of security applications often remains hidden, software vendors will claim to dominate a market based on their sales numbers vs. the reported sales numbers of their competitors,” Opswat said in the report.
More like this
jeffgaron
September 15, 2010 at 8:18am
Hello Pulkit,
I wanted to let you know that we are going to be releasing an updated version of the antivirus market share report soon. I could get you an advance copy if you have interest in writing any further content about this subject. Please contact me at jeff@opswat.com or see http://www.oesisok.com/news/oesis-ok-webinar-and-market-share-report-data for more details.
Thank you.
-Jeff Garon
Blues22475
July 08, 2010 at 9:29am
Especially when home users don't want to have to be for a subscription to an Anti-virus that fails to do it's job, and a freeware alternative out does it by leaps. If you're a home user, free anti-virus solutions is the way to go unless you have the notion that you get for what you pay for (which there is nothing wrong about that philosophy).
IMO, Microsoft Security Essentials is a great step above Windows Defender. I am quite impressed on how good of a job it does considering I've seen some pretty fail anti-virus solutions from Microsoft.
----------------------------------------
Ignorance is man's greatest enemy.
Connect with MaximumPC
Featured Content
We introduce Intel's latest class of tablet killers and review 4 of the first Ultra...
Where have all the memorable videogame enemies gone?
This month's issue
Feature
11 Hardware Hacks
Feature
Overclock Your CPU
How-To
Supercharge Your Smartphone
Build It
A Powerful $830 Rig
Most Commented Articles
Latest Max PC Tweets
- maximumpc: Here's what the @horse_ebooks bookmarklet (http://t.co/brE6898A) does to Maximum PC: http://t.co/Y6OhO6zk5 hours 19 min ago
- maximumpc: Microsoft on Patents: Can't We All Just Get Along? http://t.co/g0vginvG7 hours 40 min ago
- maximumpc: Google Drive Cloud Storage: Is Google Preparing To Muscle In On Dropbox? http://t.co/lCWzeYmS8 hours 5 min ago
