> 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.

Darn. Do you have a reproductible example (or the direct swf link ?)

The swf parser is unfortunately really crappy (the core source are from
Macromedia)

> Is it possible to skip scanning of swf files but
> still download them?
I'll add an option in a future release.

You can exclude swf files in the meantime:

Set Options / Scan rules:
-*.swf