Early in 2010, it was reported by many Playstation 3 users that their gaming console had contracted a Playstation 3 virus. What basically happened with some of the PS3 owners is that they could not access the Playstation Network. In some cases, the users were not able to play particular games offline, either. The trouble started just after midnight on March 1, 2010. When the users booted up their consoles, they could not sign into their accounts, use any dynamic themes, check out their trophies, or access the Playstation Network. Soon, it was obvious that it was not simply a connection problem as the users could not play some of the offline games, too.
Obviously, this was all very upsetting to the PS3 users and it was immediately spread about that there was a Playstation 3 virus afoot. Sony, the makers of Playstation 3, immediately set out to investigate the problem and find a fix for it. This bug was said to only be hitting the older PS3s but not the PS3 Slim. Some people thought it may have had something to do with a calendar bug, but no one was really sure what was going at the time. All they knew is that their playing capabilities were very limited.
As promised, Sony did look into the matter, investigating heavily and immediately so that they could get their customers back in the game. It turned out that the Playstation 3 Virus was not actually a virus at all. Sony found it to be what they believe was a clock issue and set about working to correct it immediately. This announcement gave credence to the theory that the older Playstation 3s thought it was a leap year. This made it impossible to understand that it was March 1st and not February 29th. A similar problem was experienced by Zune owners when New Year’s Eve came about in 2009 and some of the Zune 30GB models had glitches that were not prepared for an extra day in 2008. This caused a huge meltdown before things righted themselves after midnight on January 1st.