Computer software and hardware for providing access to the internet, computer networks, wireless networks, local communication networks, and the web; computer software and hardware for use in transferring and disseminating a wide range of information via digital subscriber lines, the internet, computer networks, wireless networks, and local networks; electronic mail computer software; electronic messaging computer software; telecommunications computer software; data mining computer software; profiling computer software; computer software for use in advertising; computer software for use in advertisement and promotion hosting and serving; computer software for use in accessing, collecting, recording, categorizing, targeting, transmitting, and tracking data about consumers, advertisements, promotional offers, and incentives; computer software for providing targeted rich media advertising; software development programs; computer software for customizing, filtering, and blocking information, text, electronic documents, graphics, and audiovisual information on the internet, computer networks, wireless networks, local networks, and the web; computer software for monitoring, restricting, and recording access to information on the internet, computer networks, wireless networks, local networks, and the web; computer software for providing secure and private access to the internet, computer networks, wireless networks, local communication networks, and the web; manuals supplied as a unit with the foregoing