avast is using.. 1100+ handles?....also... mail shield? what mail shield?

…is that considered normal? there’s lots of disk activity at / post bootup which seems to be from Avast
(ok… I’m paranoid…but, then, who isn’t?)
according to nirsoft’s ‘openfiles’ utility, avast has buku handles in use… gawrsh.

[…I still haven’t been able to get the mail shield to function… sigh]

ideas? thanx.

You seem to be in the wrong forum section, you should be in Free/Pro/IIS here
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2.0