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 activities violated several workplace policies.

Mason pointed this out to his boss every time he cleaned up a fresh malware outbreak but such was …