Hi everybody, new to Mac, can anyone tell me please, do I need to do any maintainence? ie. Disc cleanups or a de-frag?

den.thed is spot on in his assessment. The maintenance scripts run in the background, if you want to see when they were last run or to run them manually download and install the Maintidget Widget by clicking the link.
Also as far as malware and antivirus software, this is something you can also forget about with a Mac. OS X is incredibly secure and there are no viruses for OS X. Shocking but completely true. Using a little common sense such as never download from a site you are not familiar with or trust. If you get a popup telling you to download something then ignore it. Run Software Update at least once per month ( you will find it under the Apple Symbol in the upper left of your screen) and this will keep your system up-to-date.
Finally considering you are new to OS X I'd recommend you bookmark and begin using:
Mac 101
Switch 101
Find Out How Video tutorials
List of Useful URLs for switchers

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dwb
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