ICSA Labs 10th Annual Virus Prevalence Survey 2004.pdf - Craig ...

ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey 2004ANTI-VIRUS PRODUCTS EMPLOYED ON DESKTOPSTable 7 is the list of anti-virus product developers and the reported usage of each company’sproducts. The table is sorted by frequency of response and provides both frequency ofresponse and number of desktops represented by those responses. Note: both categories willsum to more than 100 percent as organizations may use more than one developer’s product.ProductResponseFrequencyFrequencyPercentDesktopResponseDesktopPercentSymantec Corp 132 44% 355,611 39%McAfee, Inc. 129 43% 355,520 40%Trend Micro 61 20% 89,437 12%Computer Assoc. 48 16% 47,691 7%Sophos, Inc. 18 6% 9,103 1%Command Software 9 3% 7,708 1%Table 7: Desktop anti-virus products in useThe survey’s participants report that McAfee and Symantec maintain their market sharedominance. However, Trend Micro’s percentage in both frequency of response and desktoppercentage has risen in each of the past two surveys. Figure 12 shows the graphical resultsof the survey taking into consideration only whether a respondent reported using one ormore specific anti-virus products on the organization’s desktops.Desktop Anti-Virus UsageTrend MicroMcAfeeOtherCom puter AssocSophosAuthentiumSym antecSym antec McAfee Trend Micro Com puter Assoc Sophos AuthentiumFigure 12: Desktop coverage by frequency of responseCopyright 2005 ICSA Labs, a division of Cybertrust, Inc. All Rights Reserved.This information may not be incorporated into any other work and may be reproduced only with the express written permission of Cybertrust, Inc.Page 17