Virus Alert!

There you are, sitting quietly with your friends, when suddenly ... Virus Alert! A virus attacks your documents, or software, and the battle is on! Relax. It's just a card game.

Virus Alert! pits you, the hacker against other hacker wannabes in a fast-paced card game of quick decisions and killer strategy. Your objective is to acquire enough computer resources to win the game. Sounds simple, right? The problem is that your opponent keeps infecting them with viruses, keeping you from your goal.

It's time to get nasty, and fight virus with virus!

The basic premise of the game is to acquire 10 virus-free Object cards that represent computer resources such as Graphics, Software, Web Pages, Games, Documents, and Email. Action cards provide game play strategy that allows players to introduce viruses (represented by tokens) onto their opponent’s Object cards. You can’t win unless you have 10 Object cards on your side with no virus tokens on them. Other Action cards shield your Objects from viruses (like Anti Virus), and help to clean virus tokens off your Object cards (Cleanup). There are Action cards that allow you to steal a card from another player (Piracy), remove anti-virus protection (AV Killer), or that pesky Virus Generator card (Scan), or search for a card in the discard pile (Backup). Some Action cards like Virus!, Recycle or Repair use a 6-sided die to determine how many virus tokens are placed or removed from your Object cards. This adds an aspect of chance to the game, and helps make every game you play different.