Security experts Sophos are reporting that two all-new pieces of malware for Apple's Mac operating system have been found in the wild and on a run of terror.

As Macs become evermore popular, the increasing and more frequent risk of malware attacks makes it abundantly clear that Apple have no more control over their software security than Microsoft - just a better ability to advertise their way out of any question-ability on the matter!

"I've got a theory that although many people are undoubtedly buying Apple computers because they're beautifully designed and well-marketed, there will also be some people who have dumped Windows because they are fed up with all of the spyware, pop-ups and virus attacks," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Indeed, some of the people who may well have suffered a lot from those kind of attacks in the past may be exactly the same kind of folk who visit the grubbier areas of the internet in the wee small hours of the morning. And they may feel that one of the side benefits of switching to a Mac is that they now don't have to worry about all of those nasty things while they're err.. watching nasty things."

Interesting. Anyway - the malware. The first peice discovered was Tored-Fam, a worm that spreads via email attachments and is simply a variant on the well known Tored family of malware that has been in circulation since last year. The worm collects email addresses and attempts to forward itself on without permission - and succeeds.

Sophos are reporting that "Tored-Fam" is likely to be repeatedly building a Mac botnet labelled "Raedbot" - being assembled by a malware written from Tunisia.

The secondary warning was for a piece of malware called Jahlav-C, a trojan which is embedded into an apparent pornography site online. It masquerades as an ActiveX video codec that needs to be downloaded in order to run the site’s content - and would be highly embarrassing and incriminating to catch for the end user.

Be warned Mac users! Get some internet security now before you regret it!