My Macbooks Wallpaper keep reseting back to default Mavericks wallpaper every so often, why is that?

Do I have a Virus?
Specs: Macbook 2009 mid 2.13ghz
Ram: 4 gigs ddr2 ram
Intergrated gpu: nvidia 2400 256mb
240gb ssd harddrive
OSX Version: 10.9.1

There's no known malware capable of infecting a Mac OS X 10.9.1 system. So it's not malware.
As to what it is, I don't know. Your Mac is probably having trouble locating your background images, so it reverts. This could be because you've got a hard drive problem or other glitch in your system, or it could be related to where you have stored those background images, or it could be the result of some third-party software that is interfering somehow. Without more information, it's impossible to say.

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