What are these blue cell phones doing in my Safari feed reader?

I opened my RSS feed reader today and all I see are blue cell phones with a message that says, "Ever been travelling and lost your *%% Read more…"
I assume this is some kind of adware and I'd like to get rid of it. Any suggestions? Never had this kind of problem in Firefox on my PC.

Same here.
It did go away when I trashed the plist file, so you may want to try that.
Or maybe not, because now it seems the news reader in Safari is going nuts. It is constantly picking up feeds I've already read and showing them as new. And a couple of the folders will not get rid of the numbers in parenthesis showing how many unread feeds are within it. I have one stuck at (68) with no new feeds within it.
All this is basically making the news reader in Safari worthless. Any good suggestions for an alternative?

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