There were some changes in the order of the top five in the September Market Share Analysis. Avira regained a position in the top five while AVG Technologies dropped out. Globally, over the last six months, AVG Technologies had the largest loss in market share with about 1.4% (note, a company can gain in seats and still lose market share), and Avira the largest gain, with just fewer than 2%. A couple of nice graphics illustrate market share and gain/loss for both the Global and North Americamarkets. The detailed report has a listing of the top 10. These top 10 have 89% of the market, according to OPSWAT.
Antivirus Worldwide Vendor Market Share September – OPSWAT
- 17.5% - Avast
- 13.9% - Microsoft
- 12.1% - Avira
- 10.6% - Eset
- 10.2% - AVG Technologies
Antivirus Worldwide Vendor Market Share June 2012 - OPSWAT
- 17.4% - Avast
- 13.2% - Microsoft
- 11.1% - Eset
- 10.3% - Symantec
- 10.1% - AVG Technologies
AV Products Worldwide Market Share
Avast and Microsoft were first and second with respect to
global market share with 13.8% and 13.6%, respectively. Avira was 3rd with 10%. As with the other lists, OPWSWAT lists the
top ten. The top ten had 81% of the market.
North America Vendor Share
Microsoft led the
other vendors with respect to market
share at 26.7%. Symantec was second at
15.7% and Avast 3rd at 11.1%. The top 10
vendors have 89.5% of the market in North America.
There has to be a story behind Avast cancelling their
initial public offering since they continue to be in a leading position among
the three A’s, AVG Technologies, Avast, and Avira, when it comes to market share. Note that this is defined as installed base,
not revenue.
The cone of shame for that timeframe from the bottom up was
from Ahnlab, Webroot, and PC Tools.
The major players are in the process of running out their
Antivirus 2013 and Internet Security 2013 suites. Depending on how these are received, the
order may be changing over time.
Antivirus Usage, Real Time Protection, System Scan and Updates
Opswat also provides some interesting data on the major
vendors from the perspective of – percentage of those with Real Time Protection (RTP)
enabled (Microsoft Wins), Average Time since Last Definition Update (Microsoft)
and Average Time since Last Full System Scan (Microsoft). Where this data is somewhat funky is that
users can define when they want a full system scan, for example.
But Wait, There’s More!
Operating Systems Share
Windows 7 has 51.9% of the worldwide market, and 46.6% of
the North America Market. See the
report. Windows XP is just under 39% in
both cases.
But Wait, There’s More!
OPSWAT Products
Read the report for blurbs on the OESIS Framwork,
AppRemover, Multi-Scanning solutions, the GEARS cloud-based endpoint management
and monitoring solution, and the Secure Virtual Desktop (SVD).
AV¬-Comparative Testing
The market share leaders aren’t always the top rated
ones in testing. From the AV-Comparative
March through June 2012 report, “Whole Product Dynamic ‘Real World’ Protection
Test, for example, the top five products
were from BitDefender, G Data,
Kaspersky Qihoo, and F-Secure. The June
through August online graphic has the order as Kaspersky, QiHoo, BitDefender,
Avira, and F-Secure.
Founded in 2002, OPSWAT is the industry leader in software
management SDKs, interoperability certification, and multiple-engine scanning
solutions.
OPSWAT market share reports are available at http://www.opswat.com/media/reports
AV-Comparatives.org
AV-Comparatives is an Austrian Non-Profit-Organization,
which provides independent Anti-Virus software tests free to the public. www.av-comparatives.org
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