- Jan 24, 2011
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According to OPSWAT’s latest quarterly market share report, released yesterday, overall worldwide market share by the top 15 antimalware vendors, has remained unchanged.
Worldwide Antivirus Vendor Market Share
AVAST So ware has a strong lead in the worldwide antivirus market in this quarter’s report with 16.61%, a recovery from the decrease shown in OPSWAT’s June report. AVG, Avira, and Microso follow, each with over 10% of the market, and maintain their rankings from last quarter’s report. Symantec has edged slightly higher than ESET in this report and holds the fi h position with 8.93% of the worldwide market. Most of the other vendors maintain their rankings from last quarter, with the exception of Lavaso , Inc., who rose into the top 15.
The percentage of the market held by the top 15 vendors remained almost constant with the data from June’s report, at around 93%
North America Antivirus Vendor Market Share
Microso remained at the top of the market this quarter, despite a slight decrease to 16.33%. Symantec moved into the second position with a small increase in share compared with OPSWAT’s last report, and AVG fell into the third position with14.32% of the North American market. AVAST rose to 13.28% to follow just behind AVG. AVAST had held about 13% of the market in OPSWAT’s report a year ago, but had been declining over the last few reports. The increase in this report moves AVAST back to their previous level. The top four vendors in this report control just under 60% of the market, and individually hold considerably higher shares of the market than the fi h largest vendor (McAfee with 7.01%).
You can read the full report here. [PDF]
Worldwide Antivirus Vendor Market Share
AVAST So ware has a strong lead in the worldwide antivirus market in this quarter’s report with 16.61%, a recovery from the decrease shown in OPSWAT’s June report. AVG, Avira, and Microso follow, each with over 10% of the market, and maintain their rankings from last quarter’s report. Symantec has edged slightly higher than ESET in this report and holds the fi h position with 8.93% of the worldwide market. Most of the other vendors maintain their rankings from last quarter, with the exception of Lavaso , Inc., who rose into the top 15.
The percentage of the market held by the top 15 vendors remained almost constant with the data from June’s report, at around 93%
North America Antivirus Vendor Market Share
Microso remained at the top of the market this quarter, despite a slight decrease to 16.33%. Symantec moved into the second position with a small increase in share compared with OPSWAT’s last report, and AVG fell into the third position with14.32% of the North American market. AVAST rose to 13.28% to follow just behind AVG. AVAST had held about 13% of the market in OPSWAT’s report a year ago, but had been declining over the last few reports. The increase in this report moves AVAST back to their previous level. The top four vendors in this report control just under 60% of the market, and individually hold considerably higher shares of the market than the fi h largest vendor (McAfee with 7.01%).
You can read the full report here. [PDF]
