A new worm virus that began spreading over the Internet on Monday has been detected by Chinese security authorities.

The worm, titled "WORM MSBlastA" and able to propagate itself on-line, is spreading quickly and widely, said China's Information Security Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday

Computers infected by the worm would not operate Word, Excel and Powerpoint programs normally and may restart themselves constantly.

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center confirmedthe worm spreads by a recognized loophole in the Microsoft operating system called the RPC DCOM.

To prevent the worm from spreading, the bureau urged users to download the patch program from the website of Microsoft.

Major software developers also have upgraded programs for killing this virus.

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