clamav and freshclam update failures

[Jan]

Thank you for your reply!  Ok, as I type this, I'm at the part where you have written as follows:
"Once the search has finished (it might find several directories/files) open the file as normal."

I have the freshclam.conf open and it shows 24 files - but none of them have the word "normal" in them.  Am I correctly understanding what you mean?
Also, there is a message at the top of the window that says: "The search database is more than 7 days old.  Update now?"  Should I do this? 

I await your reply.  Thank you so much, Ridenotwalk!