Top 10 programs especially “loved” by pirates

29th February 2008

Software & Information Industry Association has presented its annual report on the fight against piracy. It lists those programs, which often get cracked. Separately go applications illegally used in companies; separately - those most often cracked and put on the Internet.
Top 10 of pirate programs used on companies looks as the following:
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
Adobe Acrobat
Symantec PC Anywhere
Adobe PhotoShop
Autodesk AutoCAD
Adobe DreamWeaver
Roxio Easy CD / DVD Creator
Roxio Toast Titanium
Ipswitch WS_FTP
Nero Ultra Edition
Top 10 of programs, illegally distributed over the Internet:
McAfee VirusScan
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
McAfee Internet Security Suite
Intuit TurboTax
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat
Intuit Quicken Home and Business
Symantec Norton pcAnywhere
Symantec Norton Ghost
Adobe Creative Suite
As you can see, there are two leaders in these lists: Symantec and Adobe.