Hospital Gave Very Sick Doctor a Special PC for His Personal, Erm, Pleasure
The Register, Saturday, November 7th, 2026
A Register On Call reader says a hospital gave a star doctor a dedicated PC for adult content after his browsing caused a damaging worm.
In The Register's On Call column, a reader called Mason who supported a hospital's research labs repeatedly cleaned malware from the PCs of a top organ transplant researcher who habitually viewed adult content in violation of policy.
Management never intervened because of the doctor's status, even after logs showed his PC was the source of a damaging cyber-worm outbreak.
Instead, the doctor agreed with IT to use a designated PC, rescued from the e-waste pile, for personal browsing.
When Mason protested, his boss said the CIO had ordered it or he could find another job, and afterward malware cleanups dropped to about once a year.