Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Microsoft Security Essentials is the #1 anti-malware product in North America & is closing in on becoming #1 worldwide.

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Microsoft increased substantially since OPSWAT’s last report, rising to the top of the market and surpassing Symantec, who held the lead for the past three consecutive
quarters. As mentioned for global market share, Microsoft’s rise could be linked with the visibility and easy installation of their antivirus soware through Windows Update as well as its compatibility with other leading Microsoft products. AVG also rose this quarter to hold the second leading position for the second consecutive quarter. Symantec rounds out the top three with 14.47% of the North American market.  For the first time in OPSWAT’s past three reports, AVAST is not one of the top three vendors in North America, possibly related to the altering breakdown of the data’s countries of origin.
Several countries where AVAST has led in past reports accounted for smaller percentages of this report’s data.

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Read more at:

• OPSWAT:  Security Industry Market Share Analysis Report
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