clamav and freshclam update failures

[Jan]

I ran into the same problem and this is what I did and it worked for me....

...again to have it time out.
Using the file manager, logged in as root, I found and edited the freshclam.conf file changing ConnectTimeout to 300 and RecieveTimeout to 300. I also changed Checks to 6 but that's me, you don't have to do this.
The idea behind changing the timeouts was due to the awsomely great and fantastic internet we get here in Oz, I figured it was taking too long to download the DB's and freshclam times out for me.

I ran

Code:

sudo freshclam

again and the DB finished downloading and passed checks

Moments ago I ran

Code:

sudo freshclam

and got

Code:

Sun Mar  8 12:22:47 2020 -> ClamAV update process started at Sun Mar  8 12:22:47 2020
Sun Mar  8 12:22:47 2020 -> daily.cvd database is up to date (version: 25744, sigs: 2210896, f-level: 63, builder: raynman)
Sun Mar  8 12:22:47 2020 -> main.cvd database is up to date (version: 59, sigs: 4564902, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
Sun Mar  8 12:22:47 2020 -> bytecode.cvd database is up to date (version: 331, sigs: 94, f-level: 63, builder: anvilleg)

Thank you for your post.  I followed your advice to purge the clamav, but was not able to open the root folder in the file manager because it has a big X on it, so I skipped that part.  I then reinstalled the clamav, but followed the instructions in the tutorial.  Even so, I still ended up with the same four ERROR messages as before.  I ran both

sudo rm /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
sudo rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log

... but the problem is still the same the updates fail to load because it times out.  Seems like it could be a case of slow internet speed here too.

I would like to change the time connect settings in the freshclam.conf file as you did, but how to I get past the big X on the root folder in the File Manager?