Could This Be New Mac Malware? (Video In Link)

Hi. First the screen became garbled but it was hanging or freezing (iStat Menu, says the GPU Die's highest temperature in Celsiuis by far  is 74. I think 74 is not that hot for a GPU but I could be wrong). The screen looked like this:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/alvin777/iMacGarbledScreenNo1_zpsf0539810 .jpg
Even with things garbled managed to shut the late-2009 iMac down then restarted it right away. I then got to 10.9.2 Recovery then chose the OS X installed in the iMac's (the one built-in it, not external drives). It then booted but this showed up instead of the gray Apple logo (I captured a video):
http://s57.photobucket.com/user/alvin777/media/GarbledScreenorMalwareiphone_zps6 61a2a66.mp4.html
It shutted down when I pressed the power button and then pressed it again to reboot it. It booted normally. I switched off LCD smoothing in the System Preferences coz' it lasts longer (it becomes garbled in less than 2 hours if it's turned ON but it if it's OFF, it's days before it comes back at around 10:25 to 10:30pm, I noticed).
Thank you in advance.
God bless. Rev. 21:4

Hi Thanks for the reply. I guess I accidentally restarted it using the Target Disk Mode but it seems it's a bug in Mavericks because there are others who have the garbled screen or sometimes artificats (the GPU's not overheating at 74 Celsius, I read it can take up to 90+ Celsius without issues). Usually it starts when you launch an app that's related to graphics like Preview.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5506163:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24695906#24695906
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5476007?start=15&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5493333?tstart=0
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/bridge_cs6_full_screen_pre view_problem_on_os_x_mavericks
I hope the next update will fix it.

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