Freeware was removed because, apart from Microsoft and Avast, their products tend to have low market share. Trialware (paid products with a free trial period) was removed because that confused people. People were confused by the license types.I removed polls by license type because of the following reasons:.So I included Qihoo 360 as the most obvious example of this. However, none of the sources were entirely satisfactory because they usually omit Windows Defender and appear to be biased towards the US and English-speaking users. I’ve included those with more than 2% global market share The most useful statistics were from sources like !/ Each vote is now public so others can see what you have voted for.VirusTotal which I’ve chosen to add because it is an AV feature in GlassWire itself. I could have limited this to online scanners only except there are many useful free offline scanners, e.g. Three votes as some users have mentioned using three products.ESET has at least eleven products, Avast/AVG at least eight, and so on. One poll instead of four because I now use publishers instead of products which are too many to keep up with, e.g.I apologise but the maximum number of poll options is much less than the number of AV publishers.ĭifferences from the 2018 Windows AV poll are as follows: If you can’t find your publisher in the poll then check “Other” and add a post/reply to tell us the publisher/product name.

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