what is masetupcleaner.exe

I installed Samsung Kies yesterday, found it useless and uninstalled it. Immediately after a restart I got the masetupcleaner message. I am using Windows 8 Pro. I have gone through all your posts and removed anything I could find relating to this problem in system folders and the windows registry as well. 

I wasn't satisfied with these changes and decided to do a system restore. Luckily I was prompted to restore the system to a point before Samsung Kies was installed.

To restore your PC using System Restore

1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.

(If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then clickSearch.) Enter Recovery in the search box, tap or click Settings, and then tap or click Recovery. 2. Tap or click Open System Restore, and follow the prompts.

This is where windows recommends a restore to a point before I installed Samsung Kies. 

Hope this works!!

I wish I had found this page before I had downloaded, installed and had several emails back and forth with Samsung trying to get the Horrid Kies to work..... I am running Windows 8 and have had nothing but trouble with this program crashing and MAsetupcleaner.exe permissions popping up all the time.  After reading all of these posts I have decided not to upgrade my phone to a Samsung Galaxy, which I was really looking forward to getting as I'm really happy with my Samsung Tablet, I am very annoyed that I can't sync my devices with my computer, if anyone can recommend another program that will work with Samsung products and Windows 8 to sync data I would greatly appreciate it.

I had the same issues with my samsung and then i found airdroid (http://web.airdroid.com/) and my troubles are over. i've uninstalled kies (which took an age to install in the first place) but now that i've rebooted my laptop up popped this MASetupCleaner.exe. and here i am...

I notied the same thing on Hibernation and now realize it happens to be around the same time as I installed Kies.  Maybe it has malware attached it it which affects hibernation and installs those Masetupcleaner.

Similar problem yesterday with my Galaxy S3 and new Windows 8 system. I installed Kies and the USB driver offered at the same time. The phone was not recognised despite going through the error identification routine a couple of time. Is it just a coincidence that shortly afterwards (after I had disconnected my phone from the computer), I received a firmware update to my handset from Samsung ? Paranoia beginning to set in! 

As an aside I also had no joy a while back when trying to make it work with my old Windows XP system.

Would appreciate any update.