clamav and freshclam update failures

[Moltke]

Its a long time since I've been to these forums, but I just installed 4.8 on my old windows 7 laptop.  I'm trying to install the clamav antivirus as instructed in the help manual.  Despite receiving the ERROR message and typing in the sudo rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log command, I repeatedly get the reply: 

"can't download daily.cvd from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd.  Download failed.
Time out was reached.  Remote version 25742.
Has anyone else ran into this problem?

I remember having this issue a while ago and can't exactly remember but I don't think ever managed to solve it, I just stopped trying and decided not to use any AV software in Linux,  so far haven't had any virus/malware scenarios. However, googling for it gave this https://www.howtoforge.com/community/thr...ror.76634/ try that and see and if it works.

Hope this helps!