Do we classify viruses as living? give support for both yes and no arguments.

Viruses are classified as non-living. Although they have DNA or RNA as genetic information, a protein coat, and some, a lipidic envelope, they do not have the machinery to multiply on their own and therefore are non-living. A virus is simply an infectious agent that, through different ways, many times only by releasing its genetic information inside the cell, replicates using other living-cells machinery. Viruses are able to infect any type of cell.

You would classify a virus as living if it is still active in a body or system if it is in active I would classify it as non living.