Hospital gave very sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure

Welcome to Friday and therefore to a fresh edition of On Call, The Register's weekly tale of tech support trials and tribulations that readers kindly share.This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Mason," who told us he once worked at a hospital doing tech support for its research labs."One of the labs was for a doctor who was one of the world's top organ transplant researchers" Mason told On Call.The doctor was also a voracious consumer of – ahem – adult entertainment, a habit that saw his PC and other machines around the lab often come down with a nasty case of malware.Mason got to clean that up, sometimes multiple times in a single week.The doctor's foibles were widely known around the hospital, as was the fact that his...

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