Since the posibility of geting a virus with a MAC isn't 0 per cent, Mac's need virus protection as well. Everybody will reccommend the program they use, and dislike the recommendation of the next person. If you are not tramping around in the gutter of piracy and pornography, AVG Free is more than adaquate.
http://www.savemybutt.comThere you will also find spybot and addaware. All free and most of what you will need to make a good maintainence kit for your new computer. Before doing all this, see what your new machine comes with out of the box. Two programs that attack the same problem often don't like to live in the same machine.
