Well SETI@home is not a botnet .

Botnets does not come on your will .

They just sneak their way in and SETI@home is a great example of GRID Computing

Nowadays eveybody is coming up with their own infosec courses . You should look for a few things before divig into any of  them

1. Are you near the skill level required to take that course ?/(for eg . if someone says i have heard  a lot about hacking and i want to learn it . Should i go for OSCP answer is obviously no !! )

2. Who are your trainers ?? There are too many charltans in infosec .. ppl who pretend to "Know it all " but know nothing . Try to know who ur trainer will be , how much experience he has and if he is really well known or respected ( ask previous students )

3. How is the infrastructure / course material ?? If somebody is giving you a book for a couple of hundred dollars and saying this will teach you all you need to get started with hacking then he is probably robbing you of ur hard earned money .

4. Do they provide practicals or everything is theoretical?? ( it is easier said then done )


5 . Is the certification well known

Well getting foot in the door is very very hard . A good place to start is join local chapters of OWASP or any hacking community in your city . Show'em your skills , participate and give some nice presentations .( this is how i landed in my first job ).

I guess my advice is pretty insane but it worked with me so i am sharing

It is some sort of Smurf attack ?? my closest guess