I know it has been a while now since i have creates other video, but i will be bringing out an update to this one as it seems a popular topic. The reason you cant find it is apple has changed the OS quite a bit since this video but it is still there just a bit deeper. With regards to being concerned would be impossible for me to answer without knowing much more on your habits as you still pretty much need to install the malware yourself. If you are uncertain the only software i can recommend is called bitdefender. If you scan and find problems i wouldn’t worry as most are often in downloads or your email which doesn’t directly effect you. If you find anything in anyone of your libraries this is a different matter and will need further investigation but in my experience this is quite rare.

Can you tell me at what point or what you are doing when this error occurs? If erasing is 100% and copying is 100% is it when you are trying to boot from the usb key?

@@MrDazzathedude Hi, thanks for responding. This is when I’m in Terminal creating the USB bootable drive, so I’ve just pasted in the relevant path & changed volume to my USB key name etc, terminal has asked me for my password key etc. I can see that on the desktop the USB drives name has changed and on the key the Mojave os has transferred from applications but in terminal it has my above msg about failing. Somebody mentioned when initially in disk utility to erase the USB key and set up as EX-FAT rather than mac journaled and I’ve repeated that process with each different option but every time it fails when making the USB bootable drive. Do you understand the reason or wording as to why it fails? As I don’t seem to find anyone with the same issue. I really need to get Mojave on it as Big Sur doesn’t work well at all. The MacBook Pro is 15” mid 2015 if that helps at all and thank you very much for your help as I’m goin’ a little crazy trying to resolve this issue.

To clarify in Terminal when typed y then states; Erasing disc it goes 0%… 10%… 20%… etc up to 100% and on next step of Copying to disc it states 0%… 100% but doesn’t list the progress % of 10, 20 up to 100% followed by that error in 1st msg. I should also add that when I enter into terminal to create the bootable USB drive there’s a note saying; The default interactive shell is now zsh, to update your account to use zsh, please run, ‘chsh -s /bin/zsh’. I don’t understand that and not sure if it’s of importance?

@@MrDazzathedude Any ideas?

I know Apple had MRT protection in 10.6 which came out in 2009, it goes back quite far so depends on what you mean when you say an older unsupported mac?

@@MrDazzathedude so say someone is using a 2009 MacBook, El Capitan, It is no longer supported correct? MRT and all the built in antivirus should be out of date.

Hello Sean, im afraid there is no way you can do this as you cant officially? run an other earlier than what came with the Mac. at best you might be able to virtually do it using something like vmware fusion or parallels but I have checked it myself.

This is for dual booting MacOS, depending on what Mac you have it can be used if you have already created a partition for windows but not necessary. If your mac is capable of running bootcamp (not M1) boot camp sorts itself out..

@@MrDazzathedude Thank you, is bootcamp the best option for Microsoft ISO, can it share space. I am also trying Parallels Desktop.

@@IQM24 personally I use run several unix OS’s windows XP, 7 and 10 in vmware fusion. It runs flawlessly and i found it supported hardware much better than in parallels and was faster. I think vmware or parallels would be a better option as long as you have enough memory.

Yes that is very straight forward to do, however the 2011 macbook pro can only officially work with up to 10.13 high sierra so you can use high sierra and earlier..

@@MrDazzathedude Hi thanks for the fast response , yes I am using now Yosemite that runs very well the problem is that I am using it for music only and it is full of music programs that took me months to install and I have a ssd from 1Tera , do you have any video explaining how to install , is it just install the 2 ssd drive in the cd socket and boot with.a high sierra usb with the installer and install it and the the mac pressing alt at the power on it will give you the 2 options to boot ? but I think the issue is that you can not touch the other disk and viceversa because if I copy or delete something the other version of the os will not be updated and it will give me problems with the files right ?

Many thanks for you kind comment, hope it helped you 👍

You should be good

Hello Sam, i'm afraid Catalina is the latest OS this MacBook can use and I would recommend. It is possible with a bit of messing around but from experience it is just too unstable and you would have to be cautious doing any updates? beside there is just too much software nowadays that require Catalina or later to work...

@@MrDazzathedude what if my MacBook is from 2012?

@@noaharkadedelgado if your macbook is 2012 you should be able to go back as far as 10.7? And it will officially be able to run any MacOS from 10.7 to 10.15 Catalina

@@MrDazzathedude damn lmao that’s crazy, thanks for telling me this. I didint know I could go that far back

If you upgrade your OS NO, if you create a new volume NO, however no matter what you do it is ALWAYS suggest you make a backup before doing anything.

Very glad I could help? Hope you managed to remove what you wanted…

Many thanks for you lovely comment and glad you found it useful 👍

Clean my mac is OK for clearing some room and uninstalling unused apps and other stuff that come along for the ride but doest do a great job in dealing with Malware, however you probably haven't had any which is good to hear. I personally don't use app's like clean my mac as I like to do things manually and have experienced more problems in using them.

Yes its the very same OS 👍

When I plug in my flash drive I get an EFI boot option but every time I click it it takes me into system startup disk

Yes several people have pointed this out to me and was my mistake, I never admitted to being a windows expert as you can obviously tell 😁

Good queston as I am having the same or similar issues. Is there a response out there?

Hello, yes it is certainly possible to boot from an external drive, but depending on your machine it will be a fair bit slower, an ssd would help but I wouldn't say this would be good in the long run especially as cables can always accidentally disconnect and could cause problems. I always boot multiple system from external drives to clone the MacOS onto new machines.

Hello and yes I agreed with most of what you say but I was more of a Sierra fan rather than High Sierra as when High Sierra arrived there where just WAY TOO MANY problems, mostly due to the arrival of the new APFS file system. after several year this certainly improved and on some machine around the 2011 year this is the highest system they will take and minimum need to even successfully browse the internet nowadays. you say you are a Mojave fan however personally I think if you are willing to accept all the problems that came with Mojave then you are better off using Catalina... Catalina has a more secure OS as this is now installed on a separate Partition/Container and is locked it also give you more longevity. you just need to be aware that it ONLY WORKS with 64bit software. Basically the only Systems I like after much testing, depending on your needs and computer is 10.10 Yosemite, 10.12 Sierra, 10.15 Catalina, and if you must 12 Monterey but as you said this is bloated as was 10.5 leopard when it came out. (you also need to be careful as I have seem many macs knackered (Black screen) after updating to Monterey as this updates your computer firmware and needs an ORIGINAL apple HD installed to do this then you can reinstall the non apple drive and all works ok) I do however install 10.13 High Sierra on old reliable 2011 iMacs for first time Mac Users. with regards to Apple overall managing their business obviously they are doing something right as you don't become a multi trillion dollar company if not, but as for the life span and cost to the end user this is appauling, how can they say they are environmental friendly when they don't allow you to repair your own products. thank goodness for Louis Rossmann who can help with repairs that apple don't want you to do and pushing for the rights to repair.

Thank you, your comments are greatly appreciated :)