SAN FRANCISCO, USA: OPSWAT, Inc., provider of integration technologies to software developers and vendors recently completed an update to June 2010 Worldwide Antivirus Market Share report.

In this edition, the company focused on the North American market to provide a comparison from the June data to current market share, said a press release.

OPSWAT has also issued its first report covering the usage of disk encryption applications. This examination contains unique data, including information on Microsoft BitLocker deployments and the actual percentage of systems which BitLocker is actively encrypting when installed.

Drawing from the research power of two of the company’s diagnostic utilities that incorporate the OESIS Framework, OPSWAT analyzed data from tens of thousands of endpoint users who volunteered to report back their system information.

The research reveals that the top 10 Windows anti-virus applications by vendor for the North American market are as follows:

    *     Symantec Corp. 16.67 percent
    *     AVAST Software 13.09 percent
    *     AVG Technologies 11.33 percent
    *     ESET Software 9.7 percent
    *     Microsoft Corp. 9.49 percent
    *     Panda Security 6.79 percent
    *     PC Tools Software 6.35 percent
    *     McAfee, Inc. 6.17 percent
    *     Avira GmbH 4.26 percent
    *     Trend Micro, Inc. 2.98 percent

According to the report, North America shows a dramatic shift from the other continents studied in that it is the only region to have applications from a “paid” provider leading in market share.

Announcing the report on Disk Encryption, the release added, the findings show that end user adoption of hard disk encryption technologies aren’t nearly as widespread as the use of antivirus, antispyware or firewall products. Even when these hard disk encryption features are included with a Windows OS, they remain unused for the most part.