Windows 7 / IE feeds and other "favourites" pages?

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I noticed when searching the start menu I found results for"websites for the united kingdom" and "favourites bar".

I went to users/(myname)/favourites and found two folders, "Favourites bar" and "Websites for the united kingdom".

Favourites just had Suggested sites and web slice gallery url shortcuts.

The uk one had:

Business link
Directgov
NHS Choices

All which goto legit UK gov sites.

In the users/username/appdata/local/microsoft/feeds folder, there was a "Feeds for the united kingdom~" folder. Inside this there was:

NHS Choices - Behind the Headlines~.feed-ms

When I opened Internet explorer, I could see the favourites and feeds tab. In the feeds tab i opened the feed and it brought me to feeds.feedburner.com/nhschoicesbehindtheheadlines

Feedburner.com is owned by google, and going to it redirects toa google page, but this seemed like an older one related to nhs. Im from ireland but my pc is from the uk.


My questions are:

1. Are these legit links and feeds? And is the feedburner link safe?

All the files were created around the day of install of windows.

 

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Well I found this report www.scumware.org/report/feeds.feedburner.com

And it shows pages on feeds.feedburner as malicious. Is that just saying pages on it like mediafire for example may have viruses but not the official ones?