The daemon.exe process is the activator of Virtual Daemon Manager, a CD emulation tool. The program copies or maps an image file into a virtual disk drive (CD or DVD). Virtual Daemon Manager is a special kind of utility that allows the user to play and run CDs and DVDs are not in their respective disk drives. The daemon.exe process file saves the user the troubles of accessing protected CD/DVD security procedures, usually of game CDs. Daemon.exe helps the user access disk images of CDs and DVDs and run them in the hardware as if playing the real CDs or DVDs. Designed exclusively for Microsoft Windows, Virtual Daemon Manager is the latest high-end optical media emulation in that industry. The daemon.exe driver file resides in its own subfolder location in the Program Files folder. There are reports that files that go by the same name “daemon.exe” which are not found in the Program Files folder are considered a harmful virus called W32 Selotima. Sources say that it is a worm which spreads and embeds itself inside the .rar and .zip files and advices users to remove the file immediately from the system.Daemon.exe is the activator of Virtual Daemon Manager, a CD emulation tool. The program copies or maps an image file into a virtual disk drive (CD or DVD). Virtual Daemon Manager is a special kind of utility that allows the user to play and run CDs and DVDs are not in their respective disk drives. The daemon.exe process file saves the user the troubles of accessing protected CD/DVD security procedures, usually of game CDs. Daemon.exe helps the user access disk images of CDs and DVDs and run them in the hardware as if playing the real CDs or DVDs. Designed exclusively for Microsoft Windows, Virtual Daemon Manager is the latest high-end optical media emulation in that industry. The daemon.exe driver file resides in its own subfolder location in the Program Files folder. There are reports that files that go by the same name “daemon.exe” which are not found in the Program Files folder are considered a harmful virus called W32 Selotima. Sources say that it is a worm which spreads and embeds itself inside the .rar and .zip files and advices users to remove the file immediately from the system.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. daemon.exe. is used by DAEMON Tools, If you shut down daemon.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop daemon.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is DAEMON Tools, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed daemon.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as DAEMON Tools, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if daemon.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that daemon.exe, belongs to, in this case DAEMON Tools