Weird IDE controller

[oao]

I run xp64 on a Gateway 6836 Intel Duo laptop.

All of a sudden and without any obvious reason a weird thing appeared in Device Manager under SCSI and Raid Controllers: an IDE controller whose name is a randomly assigned set of 8 letters which changes at every boot. It has a yellow exclamation mark thru it and if I uninstall it it is detected again at reboot with a differen name.

Going into Properties:
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General tab:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

Driver tab: There is no driver

Details tab:

Device instance ID: ACP\PNPA000\4&5D18F2DF&0
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There is no such animal on my system. Anybody knows what the heck this is?

Thanks.

 

[Sniper]

have you installed some kind of virtual cd drive?

 

[oao]

Yup. I figured that out. Daemon Tools.

The people responsible for such software should be shot on sight.

 

[Sniper]

good stuff! glad you got it figured out.

 

[oao]

good stuff! glad you got it figured out.

I had to mess more than a day with it to get rid of it.