Baby's First - I'd love some comments!

Virus Icebreakers do work, even though they're quite cumbersome and expensive to use at times. They are by default AIs though, and Swordsman wrecks them. It might even be more frequently used now because of Faust making an appearance. So a Mimic could really work in your favour.

You could try Virus Breeding Ground to feed Mediums and Hiveminds. Also, I think you really should use that influence up for something! Diesels and Account Siphons could speed up your setup and work as nice monetary boosts. Modded is a great card from the core set as well. Aesop's Pawnshop is excellent for Noise. Even Sacrificial Construct to protect your Djinn or Progenitor?

Swordsman will ruin your day without an effective way to break it. You can't use any of your breakers on it. You could Parasite it but you'll without things like Street Peddler, Clone Chip or Self-modifying Code you've no way to instantly play a Parasite - which is one of the best ways to use Parasite. Mimic is the most effective way otherwise to deal with Swordsman.

Desperado would be better replaced with another Grimoire because of Grimoires effect on virus counters. Now your Crypsis comes into play with a token already on it, as does everything else that gets tokens. You can't use both Grimoire and Desperado at the same time so there's not much point having them both in there. Better to just double up on the Grimoires.

Imp is an incredible card with Noise and Grimoire. You play Imp and mill a card, then you can make runs at servers and use Imp to take cards away from the Corp. If you're playing against something like a tag and bag deck or a deck running Punitive Counterstrike then you can use Imp counters to take away the corps kill cards or say "No, I won't take this agenda yet, I'll put it into the Archives and go for it later".

Hades Shard will make getting into archives even easier. It has the added bonus that when you use go to use it properly, because of the timing structure the Corp doesn't have a chance to use Jackson Howard to save the agendas that you've put into the archives.

Maybe consider using Keyhole as well. It'll let you hand pick what goes out of R&D. A very common combo is to use it with Eater but remember, Eater will die to a Swordsman and you cant use Eater to break into Archives because then you can't access. But that's what your Hades Shard is for. Keyhole would also feed Medium with virus counters which you could then use Darwin to hit R&D for big Medium digs.

And absolutely find ways to spend your influence. Self Mod, Clone Chips are great uses. So is Aesop's Pawnshop and Cache.

All of the above comments are excellent. I can't post a link to my Noise deck for some reason, so I'll paste it as text format here. This is a near replica of Pacer's Noise deck from Team Covenant, and his noise deck is definitely worth a watch!

Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire (Core Set)

Event (5)
3x Déjà Vu
2x Hacktivist Meeting

Hardware (4)
2x Grimoire
2x Clone Chip ••••

Resource (12)
3x Wyldside
3x Aesop's Pawnshop ••••• •
1x Hades Shard •
2x Adjusted Chronotype
3x Street Peddler

Icebreaker (3)
2x Corroder
1x Mimic

Program (21) 3x Datasucker
2x Medium
3x Parasite
3x Imp
1x Gorman Drip v1 •
2x Lamprey
2x D4v1d
3x Cache •••
1x Incubator
1x Clot

15 influence spent (maximum 15) 45 cards (min 45) Cards up to The Underway