IPod detected as new: prompted to restore from backup ...(?)

have no idea why, as soon as my iPod is dectected in iTunes, I'm being prompted to restore from a backup. Itunes seems to identify my iPod as a new device (?) and guess what, I don't want to restore. The iTunes backup is a few days old, my iPod works fine etc.. what can I do to let iTunes know that it's still the same old iPod being connected? thanks.
ps: the issue is new, I'm usually doing regular syncing and backups through both iTunes and iCloud, nothing has changed on my system.

thanks but this is not my problem at all, I didn't restore recently ... anyway as said everything went back to normal after I set up my iPod as new via iTunes. That doesn't set it back to factory settings etc... like I feared first, that just merges iTunes already synced stuff with the iPod data.
ps: I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials, and it's up to date. Could be that the download/traffic scanning interferes with iTunes, but I won't deactivate it

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