Thanks for any consideration of the problem, but I found the solution.

sudo freshclam command is used for updating your antivirus database, which cannot be run while another instance (auto update) is already running.

Stop auto uptade process: sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop

Run manual update: sudo freshclam

Re-Start auto update process: sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam start

I found this on: https://askubuntu.com/questions/880253/sudo-freshclam-not-working-error-cant-open-var-log-clamav-freshclam-log-in-a#880282

Thanks again.

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On Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at 1:06 PM, TH123 <round12345@protonmail.com> wrote:

Attn: Clamav-users

I'm having a problem with freshclam.

$ sudo freshclam
WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option SafeBrowsing at /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf:22
ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
ERROR: Initialization error!
$

This happened after an OS update. I have Pop! OS (version of Ubuntu) and it is 20.04. Before the update, everything was working fine. I purged all files related to clamav and freshclam and reinstalled with no change.

Any advice is appreciated.