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Microsoft Security Essentials is 3rd most used Antivirus

The free anti virus software, Microsoft Security Essentials is ranking up on the charts.

According to a report published by OPSWAT, a software development company based in San Francisco, MSE is fast becoming one of the most popular antivirus programs out there. In terms of worldwide market share, MSE is the third most popular antivirus program with a 10.08 percent share, trailing AVG (10.96 percent), Avira (11.65 percent), and Avast (16.26 percent). MSE sits ahead of heavy hitting AV programs like ESET (10.06 percent), Symantec (9.97 percent), Kaspersky (7.75 percent), McAfee (4.74 percent), and several others, and also recorded the biggest market share gain of the bunch in the past year.

“Symantec continues to lead the North American antivirus market at the beginning of 2012 with 16.09%, a slight decrease from their 16.65% in 2011,” OPSWAT notes. “Microsoft leaped from fourth to second place in this year’s ranking with an increase from 9.94 to 14.92% over the last year.”

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Source: Hot Hardware

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