nat is a "natural" firewall?

Isn't a lot of these nat "firewalls" befsx41 etc a pretty good firewall?

you can't attack it because ports are only opened from the inside.

So basically someone has to download something to a pc on the inside and then that software has to "phone home" so to speak to allow a connection through the firewall.

sites like

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etc have nice tests to test the firewalls.

How is this not a good firewall?

I also run nortons antivirus on all my pc's and occasionally spybot and adaware. I have yet to be hacked or get a virus.

IMO

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Posted 5 years ago by John Smith in Networking Firewalls

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