How to restrict Internet access for certain PCs to certain web sites?

I have a few PCs that I want to limit their Internet access to nothing more than Windows updates and AV updates. All other Internet access I want blocked but I want to preserve LAN access via TCP/IP. Is there an easy solution for this like a proxy software that I can place on a server somewhere so that I do not need to configure each PC? I was thinking about setting the gateway on these PCs (via the DHCP reservation) to the IP address of the server with this software and setting up various access rules on this server as necessary. This is for a MS Windows environment but I could build and use a Linux box if necessary. Please reply to the group, e-mail addy is not valid. TIA.

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Posted 5 years ago by Squish in Networking Firewalls

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