Security dominates software sales charts

AV, IS and anti-spyware products represent nine of last month’s top 20 bestsellers.

Sales of security products remain very strong despite economic conditions, according to market research organisation

NPD

, whose sales figures for September show nine of the top 20 selling products were security-related. The rest of the chart is made up of games and office software.

The top three sellers were evolution game

Spore

, the home-user edition of

Microsoft

‘s

Office 2007

, and MMORPG

Warhammer Online

. The next three places were taken by security offerings from

Trend Micro

,

Webroot

and

Symantec

, with another six slots further down the list also security products, including two more

Norton

variants, another one each from

Trend

and

Webroot

, as well as

McAfee

‘s

VirusScan

and

Microsoft

‘s

OneCare

.

No details of exact sales figures were made available. The full listing is carried by gaming site

Shacknews


here

.

Posted on 20 October 2008 by

Virus Bulletin