clamav and freshclam update failures

[Jan]

 

^Clamd was not installed.  Cant connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl:  No such file or directory. 

I think I must be jinxed!  Despite a fresh installation of LL 4.8, I've still run into ALL the exact same problems and error messages as before.  I'm currently back at my last and most recent error message as described above.  I'm totally exhausted.  Does anyone have a solution to this?  Many thanks!