In her article, the author presents the problems connected with reaction of the states to the contemporary financial crisis that has acquired features of a economic global crisis, a new disease of the beginning of the 21st century. The main research attention is focused on presentation and analysis of the rescue programmes for economies „infected with viruses". As an example, there were used the simulation packages worked out in such countries as the USA, Germany and Poland in the period from September 2008 to August 2009. Atypical determinants of the current crisis require non-standard approaches to counteracting its negative consequences.