market share from av-companies

[amico81]

Hello community!

i'm searching the market share of the av-vendors..but i can't find current figures.

just older figures from 2013

anybody here with current figures?

 

[Viking]

Oct 2017
Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report | Metadefender.com

 

[amico81]

thanks a lot. very interesting. I thougt that Trend Micro would be a big player. And Gdata and Emsisoft not in the Top 10?
okay my company uses Mcafee too....they reason why Mcafee survives

 

[DeepWeb]

Oct 2017
Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report | Metadefender.com

They didn't include Microsoft though. :/ I find their reasoning to be phony. II see lots of computers that come pre-installed with those 3 months of McAfee.

I'm surprised and relieved by the popularity of Avast. Good to know that so many computers do have a behavior blocker. Avast is easily the best free antivirus. Also surprised by the low market share of Kaspersky. I thought they would have a much much bigger share of the AV market.

 

[Faybert]

I suspect this company the same way I suspect about anti-virus testing (av-test and av-comparatives), Qihoo have more customers than G Data, F-Secure, Emsisoft and Kaspersky? Does not make sense

 

[509322]

I suspect this company the same way I suspect about anti-virus testing (av-test and av-comparatives), Qihoo have more customers than G Data, F-Secure, Emsisoft and Kaspersky? Does not make sense

1. It is free
2. They aggressively push their free product because they make money via other means
3. There are billions of people that foolishly want free (expect something for nothing)

 

[509322]

thanks a lot. very interesting. I thougt that Trend Micro would be a big player. And Gdata and Emsisoft not in the Top 10?
okay my company uses Mcafee too....they reason why Mcafee survives

Some deliberately do not participate or share data for that study or the data is so small as to be difficult to measure so they just lump into "Other."

Some don't care one bit about market share as long as money is flowing into the company coffers. Cash flow is way more important than market share.

 

[amico81]

but....if I have a av-company...and I have 400 mio. users like avast....can i say, that I have 400 Mio sensors of early detection from malware...
so I should be faster and better than the other competitors...btw i can create more signatures than the other competitors or I'm wrong?

 

[gery79]

spybot? seriously?

 

[Deleted member 65228]

Qihoo have more customers than G Data, F-Secure, Emsisoft and Kaspersky?

Qihoo used to also be bundled with adware which was in the wild. I haven't encountered this recently but I encountered a lot of adware during 2016 which would install Qihoo. However even when it does get bundled, it doesn't always count as "Adware" because some installers may be written in a foreign language like Chinese or Japanese -> you accept anyway -> now it gets installed among other bundled software from this unofficial package.

So I'd say it would not be unreasonable to say that X% of the market share from statistics about Qihoo could represent people who have actually been a victim of adware and it has just been automatically installed. Probably not a large amount but at-least some. And I would not expect this for other vendors like Avast because well.. I've never encountered that during a hunt for malicious software.

Note: I am not saying Qihoo is adware. Of course it isn't. What I am saying is I've seen a lot of adware during 2016 and the beginning of 2017, pushing Qihoo. The pushing via this method had nothing to do with the Qihoo authors themselves of course.

Anyway we need to remember that Qihoo is free as Lockdown said and I would imagine that a large base of their user-base are actually situated in a foreign country like China. Because I am pretty sure Qihoo is a Chinese vendor, so it would make sense if they have many users from those country or countries near it where there is a similarity in the native language, and so on.

 

[Sunshine-boy]

foolishly want free

What about free open source software?
I think there are some good free tools: wide disk cleaner! kaspersky free, nirsoft tools and more...

 

[Sunshine-boy]

Qihoo have more

What about Chinese people?They use 360 stuff!
https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/19721/chinese-export-brands-2017/
Qihoo 360 arrived at the conclusion that it controls 94.8 percent of China’s PC anti-virus software market with monthly active users averaging over 500 million.
You can read about it here:
Chinese regulator questions Qihoo 360 over $7.5 billion listing

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I think they get these results based on the users using their Metadefender Cloud Client
I don't think it correctly represents the real AV market share

Looking at the last result of Safer-Networking Ltd. = Spybot - Search & Destroy => I can see most users are using windows 10 (72%) => I think it's because these users are using Spybot anti-beacon (telemetry blocking tool for W10)

but I assume avast and ESET do have a lot of users

 

[In2an3_PpG]

As quoted from Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report | Metadefender.com
https://metadefender.opswat.com/reports/anti-malware-market-share#!/

The information in this report is representative of over 40 million data points collected from thousands of live Windows machines and includes both corporate and home users.

I agree with @Evjl's Rain, i also don't think this a good representation of the actual market.

 

[amico81]

As quoted from Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report | Metadefender.com
I agree with @Evjl's Rain, i also don't think this a good representation of the actual market.

other sources for the actual market?

 

[kev216]

I'm a bit surprised by the results of the marketshare. I thought that Kaspersky would be ranked higher. Also Symantec is missing in the list.
This is not really representable for the Belgian market at least. If I see someone with a free AV, it is most of the time Avast free, which is true if you look at the chart in the link. But if you want to pay for a security suite and you go to a computer shop or supermarket here in my country, the only ones you can buy are Norton, Bitdefender, Kaspersky or McAfee. In more specialised shops you can find Bullguard or Panda too, but then you need to search already to find a shop that sells those.

 

[SHvFl]

Their data are completely useless tbh. You can't do a survey and focus on a particular group of people and expect that your results are not flawed. There is no way this data are accurate especially for home users.

The data in this report was generated on October 1st, 2017 and includes data collected in the last 6 months from users of our free tools including Metadefender Cloud Client. Metadefender Cloud Client is an endpoint forensics tool that can scan endpoints for malware and vulnerabilities using more than 40 anti-malware and vulnerability engines and can scan drive boots sectors.

For the purpose of the report, our sample size is assumed to be representative of the market, based on the wide accessibility of our free tools to a large range of users

Also if someone has contact to these people ask them what they smoke. I want to buy some.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

other sources for the actual market?

No unfortunately. I do not believe there is such data unless Microsoft was to release data of the sort but I doubt a report like that would ever come to exist.

 

[bribon77]

If I had to say, I would say. which is Avast the most used. But of course it is only my opinion nothing scientific.