OPSWAT December 2010 Market Share Worldwide Reports

This is a DIRECT LINK to a pdf report.

http://www.oesisok.com/news-resources/reports/q4-2010-antivirus-backup-client-and-windows-os-reports

 

I always though Symantec had a lot more market share than that, and i never though ESET had so much

 

I would have thought McAfee would have been a little bit higher. They are used a lot in academic and corporate environments.

 

In contrary, they had a huge win. They doubled in half a year. That's stunning indeed.

No more ESET Smart Security in your signature?

 

correct, my fault as I was actually looking at it backwards. Very good job Eset. Will edited my other comments.

 

Yes, I made the same fault on first sight. It would have been more logical if they turned around the graph, so it would be in correct order of time.

 

Still there. Had removed it to run it through the washer and dryer.

 

-ESET gained the most World-Wide Market Share (%) in the 6-month period(Jun.-Dec. 2010).
-Kaspersky, Panda, and AVG gained, too.
-AVIRA, avast!, McAfee and MS lost.
How Accurate/Representative is this Report?

 

I can offer you some more details about the report: The data for OPSWAT’s report is collected through two free tools, AppRemover and “Am I OESIS OK?”. These tools are available free for download to anyone who visits the sites, but at this time the tools are only compatible with Windows OS. Data for the report is therefore from Windows users only, but provides a large sample to represent market share among Windows users.

OPSWAT also has a free interoperability certification program called OESIS OK. Being OESIS OK guarantees that the product is detected by the OESIS Framework and can be included in these reports. OPSWAT includes additional products in the report as well, but not all smaller vendors are included (including every vendor would, of course, be impossible).

 

For a discussion of why this report may not accurately represent the “worldwide market share” of anti-virus vendors, please see this thread.

 

HEY! i didn't notice that.
It's unbelievable for me that ESET got THAT MUCH market share in half a year
They doubled their market share?! WTH happened there.

I smell BS here

 

More people discovered and started to use a great product!

 

hm...very interesting and good job ESET

 

Not bashing ESET and i never said it's not good but hard to believe they jumped so much

 

It should not impress me, they have been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies

http://www.deloitte.com/fast50ce

 

They probably have grown a lot, but I don't think this report represents the real market.

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