> Hi, the 20 or so URLs I'm mirroring have many links to 
> external sites that I don't want to mirror - some point 
to 
> huge news sites! Having done a mirror I've set exclusion 
> scan rules based on sites that were mirrored but that I 
> didn't want. My scan rules are below, are these really 
> causing WinHTTrack to crash and if so is there an easier 
> way to set them up?
I don't think so, the internal filter system should be able 
to handle 500 rules (including rules created "on the fly")

A bug was reported (and fixed) yesterday, which is causing 
crashes in certain big sites - this might be the same bug 
here. But if the crash never occurs at the same point (take 
a look at the number of links, like 143/780 (+2), when the 
crash occurs), it may be another one.

Anyway I will post "soon" a RC4 with various fixes, hope 
it'll fix everything