Answer is:
No, they are not considered to be alive.
Science does not see virus as forms of life. They are forms that cannot resemble a living cell, although they conatin a Nucleic acid, and are surrounded by an envelop made of proteins. Still, the process to replicate of a DNA in a Virus requieres the presence of host cells, therefore scientists dont see enough properties that living organisms posses in order to locate them in a kingdom of living organisms
