This has been a problem for a long long time and I reported it before. I think
httrack is trying to parse the swf files looking for links inside. On some of
these files it just hangs forever with 100% CPU usage. The program doesn't
even exit, I have to kill it via the Task Manager.

I suggested in the past that you add an option to disable scanning inside swf
files or scan in another thread and kill it if it doesn't return after some
reasonable amount of time.

Is it possible to skip scanning of swf files but still download them? If not,
when will this problem be addressed, please?