Difficult to say if this study is a true reflection of reality , but it tends to prove that the reputation of the largest publishers of security solutions do not give them that much larger market share for their products. Both solutions offer a free tool to ensure the complete uninstallation of security applications , and verification of the compatibility of security applications with other third party applications. Via the feedback obtained, OPSWAT advance 42 % market share security solutions back to free solutions. Thus avast! Free Antivirus which leads with 11.45% , followed by Avira AntiVir Personal with 9.19% and AVG Anti- Virus Free with 8.6% . At the foot of the podium again with a free solution Microsoft Security Essentials totaling 7.78 %. In this classification , the first solution pay comes in fifth place, it is the paid version of avast! with 5.4% . Found behind two other paid products : Kaspersky Internet Security ( 4.48% ) and Norton AntiVirus ( 4.24% ). For OPSWAT , these statistics prove that ” end users are much confidence in the ability of free virus to ensure their safety than those who are paying “. These figures are obviously limited to the panel of users OPSWAT solutions , also the English language. Still, these results are not surprising as this one Gartner analyst. But rather than reliance on the free or paid , the analyst interviewed by ComputerWorld is much more pragmatic. For him , the Free products are more likely to be popular in times of economic crisis.