This is somewhat typical for the entire cyber-security field, where most of the niche markets - like email gateway security, firewalls, and VPNs - are also fragmented between an assortment of vendors, rather than being in the firm grasp of one big market player. There's also no company dominating the market as we often see in other industry verticals. Only English-language versions of our free products are available, so countries with higher numbers of English speakers are expected to use these applications at higher rates."īut, currently, OPSWAT's data is the only report giving insight into today's Windows anti-malware market, based on which some basic observations can be made.įor starters, we can see there's no big gap between the top four ranked vendors, all bunched together within a 3% point difference. "While our free products have international reach, their use is not commensurate with worldwide population distribution. "Users sampled may not be representative of the general population," it said. The company also admits that its report is not fully representative of the entire anti-malware market.
The OPSWAT report excludes Windows Defender data outright, as the product is installed by default on almost all modern Windows systems.
The company says it collects its data from more than 30,000 enterprise and home systems where customers installed its free apps.Īccording to its latest report, published at the end of October, Symantec is today's top anti-malware vendor, with a market share of 13.56%, followed by ESET with 12.84%, and McAfee with 12.21%. OPSWAT Windows anti-malware market share, October 2019Īntivirus programs from Symantec, ESET, and McAfee are today's most popular Windows-based anti-malware products, according to usage data gathered by enterprise software vendor OPSWAT.įor more than five years, OPSWAT has been collecting data and publishing monthly market share reports for the Windows anti-malware market.
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