Webroot Software's detection rate has dropped to one of the worst in the industry. There's a reason their software isn't on virustotal.
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Only place doing daily updates, really?
This article says that Webroot's filtering service updates daily, whereas desktop solutions can't do that. Since when? Every antivirus software package I know of that's worth its salt updates at least daily, including desktop clients. How is this not possible? (Also, UTM appliances such as SonicWall and others update continually as well, even though they're on site) And remote web filtering has been available through our MXLogic reseller for years, although we don't use it. So how does that make Webroot the first and only?