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Symantec, ESET, McAfee rank first in Windows anti-malware market share
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 845615" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>As it follows from the report and some other reports, the most popular is actually Windows Defender, which was intentionally excluded. In fact, the report is not about the most popular products, but about the "<strong>most popular products of user's choice</strong>'" (whatever it means). Here is a citation from the report:</p><p></p><p>"Although Microsoft is heavily saturated in the anti-malware product market, we have excluded this vendor because <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><strong>we feel that its products do not accurately represent the user's product of choice</strong></span> as they come pre-installed on many Windows systems and cannot be removed<em>.</em>"</p><p></p><p>This awkward argumentation follows from the fact that OPSWAT could not estimate how popular would be WD, if it was not preinstalled in Windows.</p><p></p><p>WD is the most popular for some reasons:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is free.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is as good as other free AVs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is preinstalled in Windows.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is most compatible with Windows OS.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 845615, member: 32260"] As it follows from the report and some other reports, the most popular is actually Windows Defender, which was intentionally excluded. In fact, the report is not about the most popular products, but about the "[B]most popular products of user's choice[/B]'" (whatever it means). Here is a citation from the report: "Although Microsoft is heavily saturated in the anti-malware product market, we have excluded this vendor because [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][B]we feel that its products do not accurately represent the user's product of choice[/B][/COLOR] as they come pre-installed on many Windows systems and cannot be removed[I].[/I]" This awkward argumentation follows from the fact that OPSWAT could not estimate how popular would be WD, if it was not preinstalled in Windows. WD is the most popular for some reasons: [LIST=1] [*]It is free. [*]It is as good as other free AVs. [*]It is preinstalled in Windows. [*]It is most compatible with Windows OS. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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