Take a look at OPSWAT Security Industry Market Share Report March 2011
Where is the link?
Seems there are great oscillations from one trimester to another…
avast has already acknowledged that something is fishy in the sampling (the universe of Opswat public).
Anyway, good for global market share. Congratulations
I mostly use CNET for software reviews, popularity, download numbers and ranking. I use both CNET’s review and users’ reviews.
Version: 6.0 [b]Date added: February 23, 2011[/b] Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $49.99 to buy (Buy it now) Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 Total Downloads: 992,506 Downloads last week: 6,512 [b]Product Ranking: #4 in Internet Security Software Suites[/b]
http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Internet-Security/3000-18510_4-75095376.html
If you look at their rankings for 5.0.594 which has been available for quite a while you get
Version: 5.0.594 Date added: July 01, 2010 Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $59.95 to buy Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 Total Downloads: 399,041 Downloads last week: 19,375 [b]Product Ranking: #1 in Internet Security Software Suites[/b][url=http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Internet-Security/3000-18510_4-11438767.html] http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Internet-Security/3000-18510_4-11438767.html[/url]