Hospital IT staff end up maintaining a doctor's personal PC after repeated malware infections

This is an anecdotal On Call column with no specific vulnerability, CVE, product version or technical indicator named. A hospital research lab's systems were repeatedly infected through non-work browsing, and a worm later spread from one of those machines. Management tolerated the policy breach and assigned a refurbished PC for personal use, which was later cited as evidence in litigation. Defenders can take away the need to enforce acceptable-use policies consistently regardless of seniority, and to segregate personal browsing from clinical or research systems.

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