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AV Programs - most users?!

reply to freidrich
Will the following link help?

»AntiVirus Poll 2008

It is likely a bit different than the national average in that the people here are a little more hep to the free ones and how to use them.

reply to freidrich
Are you asking for the AV's that are most popular or ones that support the most number of users?????

reply to freidrich
If I recall correctly from a recent Gartner report, the big three (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) own about 80% of the market share.

Of course, take that with a grain of salt - Think of all of the PCs that come with pre-installed software, the corporate PCs, etc.

reply to freidrich
Thank for the answers..

I would like statistics on generic users, like a list on the most installed/used programs in the world

I suppose that might differ very much from the most popular on dslreport..

Thanks!

You would have to probably find out which AV comes pre-installed on each manufacturer's PC then - worldwide, which would involve contacting the main manufacturer's directly. Inertia being what it is, I would imagine that a lot of people just renew whatever came with their computer or let their AV coverage lapse completely.
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reply to freidrich
"Most users" is likely unquantified. Most sales revenues are to corporations, not households. The number of seats actually used is therefore unknown. You also have to consider that hardware based devices have grown rapidly in use, serving at the edge of the entire network for antivirus protection as well as traditional firwall and intrusion detection. The number of seats protected in this manner is also unknown.

So the best you can do is to use revenue as the basis, I would think. Sometimes you will find admissions as to the number of machine hitting the update servers. This too is not reliable, as in managed settings the notion of each machine hitting an update server for new definition files is unthinkable. Revenue figures are tough as the top antivirus companies are likely privately held, and often in countries without the security law provisions for disclosure that would govern a US corporation, for example. Antivirus software manufacturers are interesting for how geographically diverse they are; you have Symantec (US), Panda (Spain), ESET (Croatia), Kaspersky (Russia), Trend Micro (Japan), for example. Finally, the market shares are often of strong regional bias. The top sellers in the US are likely not identical to even Western Europe, and surely have no relationship to sales in China or the Pacific Rim generally.

So in the end you will likely only find guesstimates by leading research companies; none of whom publish their complete reports for free access.

Good luck. You may consider building (in a reasonably narrow range of focus) your own guesses as to seats and market share by revenue.
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