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

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This is a true-style tech support story from a former hospital IT worker. A senior researcher kept picking up malware from personal websites on his work computer, and management did not stop him. He was later given a separate computer for those activities, which became evidence in a later lawsuit.

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  1. Fri 6 NovemberHospital gave very sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasureThe Register (Security)

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