Port forwarding port 80

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So I'm setting up port forwarding for some games on my router. Check EA website for BF3 and it says:

If you are playing on PC, please enable the following online ports on your connection:
TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 20000-20100, 22990, 17502, 42127
UDP: 3659, 14000-14016, 22990-23006, 25200-25300
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Now I don't particularly mind forwarding some obscure port, but port 80 etc? Not too clued up about this, but surely that is risky, no?
 
As long as no one is hosting a web server on your home network it should be fine. Port forwarding port 80 will just mean any incoming requests on port 80 (http) will be rerouted to the bf3 device. If people are browsing the Internet it won't affect this as only the outgoing requests will be port 80. Port 443 is for ssl so the same concept will apply.
 
durbandave said:
As long as no one is hosting a web server on your home network it should be fine. Port forwarding port 80 will just mean any incoming requests on port 80 (http) will be rerouted to the bf3 device. If people are browsing the Internet it won't affect this as only the outgoing requests will be port 80. Port 443 is for ssl so the same concept will apply.
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That much I've got, but surely any flaw in the network stack @port 80 would be exposed too?

Meaning, is the network stack still exposed to 0 days attacks & what not even if nothing is actively hosting on it?
 
I use comodo firewal and to give you an example of the settings for "program.exe"

Action :Allow
Protocal: TCP or UDP
Direction: OUT


Source address: any address
Destination Address: Any address
Source Port: Any
Destination Port: Any
 
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