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Almost 50% of top software sales are antivirus or antispyware – Yikes!

Submitted by on October 19, 2008 – 8:58 pmNo Comment

Is it a problem that 9 of the top 20 software titles for September (in terms of total sales) for PC’s are antivirus/antispyware? Or am I just being a smug, uh, non-windows user? And is that an Apple product at #19?

1. Spore
2. MS Office 2007 Home & Student
3. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
4. Trend Micro AntiVirus 2008 Plus Anti-Spyware
5. Spy Sweeper
6. Norton 360 2.0 3User

7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life
8. Norton Antivirus 2008
9. Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 3User
10. Spy Sweeper w/Antivirus
11. Norton Internet Security 2008

12. MS Office 2007
13. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Collector’s Edition
14. Spore Galactic Edition
15. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
16. Windows Live OneCare 2.0
17. Crysis Warhead
18. VirusScan Plus 2008
19. MobileMe
20. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe

[kotaku via gizmodo]

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