Are viruses living organisms ? This is a question that many people and scientist seem to ask themselves. Over the years we found out that viruses are more like parasites , the viruses would enter a cell and attack the cell which makes that cell the host cell for the virus . So I believe that viruses could be considered to be alive and this is why . Viruses infected a cell but to infect a cell it has to have some type of energy to have harm done to the cell . Personally I feel like of ANYTHING can cost harm to anythings else it should be considered a living organisms . Think of it like this , how can a non living organisms cause harm to any living or nonliving things ? But that was just my opinion. But in fact a virus is not